This was to be accomplished by changing the current public work stations, removing chairs and tables and replacing them with standing computer monitors. The explicit intent was stated so as to remove any place where a laptop might be set-up and used to transcribe information from their systems.
The past Recorder often blustered about not having people "do business in his office", but did not act so boldly and directly against those engaged in fair and reasonable commerce.
Indeed, he seemed to recognize that filing agencies and title firms and researchers serve the public by providing necessary professional services that would otherwise consume the resources and ability of a County office to handle.
The current Deputy Recorder has had several complaints lodged against her by both County staff and the public. She has engaged in a crusade to make our firm's specialist unwelcome; staring across the room at our foreclosure expert while he explains how to find liens, or calling our researchers outside for confabs about taking client calls while children run about the office screaming, or removing access to microfilm from the public area, or telling her staff not to say hello to us when we greet them at the door. No joke. This is the petty little tin-dictator stuff that she does.
Following a recent complaint letter about her that was posted on the county website, she went into overdrive behind the scenes harassing her staff about stopping to chat for a moment with us and telling people that she was working to get rid of us from the County. She even went as far as mentioning this to one of OUR clients, which got back to us directly. This is incompetent and malicous at best and discriminatory and harassing even moreso.