Seneca County Clerk offers free fraud-alert sign-up for online land records
November 26, 2025 | Seneca, New York
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Seneca County Clerk Christina Lutz told supervisors she has implemented a fraud‑alert feature on the county’s online land records portal, uslandrecords.com, that will notify registered users by email when a name they submit appears in new recordings.
Lutz said the county paid a one‑time $3,000 implementation fee (covered from the recording-fee revenue the clerk’s office receives) and will promote the free service with a press release prepared jointly with the county manager. Residents must proactively register the name(s) they use on records — for example, variations like "Joe" and "Joseph" — to receive alerts. If a registrant receives an alert for a record they did not create, instructions will be provided on how to report it to the clerk’s office for follow-up.
Supervisors and staff discussed placing the sign-up link on the county website and including instructions in the press release so constituents can easily enroll. The clerk described the change as a low‑cost, constituent-facing protection step, funded by existing recording‑fee revenues and requiring no new county general-fund expenditure.
Next steps: clerk’s office to finalize press release and coordinate with IT to add a direct sign-up link on the county website.
Lutz said the county paid a one‑time $3,000 implementation fee (covered from the recording-fee revenue the clerk’s office receives) and will promote the free service with a press release prepared jointly with the county manager. Residents must proactively register the name(s) they use on records — for example, variations like "Joe" and "Joseph" — to receive alerts. If a registrant receives an alert for a record they did not create, instructions will be provided on how to report it to the clerk’s office for follow-up.
Supervisors and staff discussed placing the sign-up link on the county website and including instructions in the press release so constituents can easily enroll. The clerk described the change as a low‑cost, constituent-facing protection step, funded by existing recording‑fee revenues and requiring no new county general-fund expenditure.
Next steps: clerk’s office to finalize press release and coordinate with IT to add a direct sign-up link on the county website.
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