Business sues counties over land records
A Cumberland business aiming to create a statewide database of electronic land records is taking 13 Maine counties to court for not providing the information.
John Simpson, owner and general manager of MacImage of Maine LLC, filed the appeals when counties denied or ignored requests for the land records issued through the Freedom of Access Act, according to the Kennebec Journal. The complaint, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court, names all counties except Hancock, Oxford and Piscataquis, according to the Bangor Daily News.
The company plans to establish a website that would allow users to access electronic copies of registry of deeds documents, according to the reports. In the complaint, MacImage argues that counties charging rates of $1 or more per page for electronic public documents are effectively barring access to the information, violating Maine's Freedom of Access Law.
MacImage has already taken Hancock County to court for not allowing the company to obtain the records for a reasonable fee, and a judge in Cumberland County Superior Court ruled in favor of MacImage on Sept. 1, according to the Kennebec Journal.
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