We have a newer Clerk of Courts here in Franklin County who was a bar owner prior to being elected. He has a good "name" for politics here in central Ohio, but no experience with the courts whatsoever.
The office now indexes only by the way the parties are listed on the complaint. Today I was doing a search on a property I knew was in foreclosure. The only way it was indexed was under "unknown heirs, devises and legacies of Jane Doe". On the computer, you can't even read Jane Doe as it is beyond the number of letters that will appear on the screen. Several of us have spoken to the clerk about this, but we have been told that they are required to only index in the manner that the complaint is stylized. This is new to me. I have run records in seventy of the eighty-eight counties in Ohio over the last thirty years, and this is the first office I've had this issue with. We have tried to explain the problem with not indexing under the actual name, but it is like talking to a brick wall.
I've run into this in other offices on the occasional recording, but it has always been easy to explain the problem and have it corrected. These folks just flat out refuse to correct the records.
I'm just curious if anyone else has a problem of this nature.
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