Montgomery County, Ohio

Ohio residents filed 7,178 identity theft complaints in 2007 and publicly available documents could have been making it easier for thieves to gather personal information.

In early 2008, Ohio General Assembly enacted House Bill 46, mandating public offices to redact private information from any document made available to the public on the internet.

Prior to the mandate, Montgomery County Clerk of Court, Gregory Brush, recognized the threat posed to the county’s 542,250 citizens and issued an RFP for redaction in November 2007. The project would cover redacting tens of millions of historical documents along with keeping up with 2.2 million annual day-forward documents. This is the type of challenge that couldn’t be solved with manual redaction alone, and required an automated solution to handle the volume.

Download the Montgomery County case study PDF to see how they solved this.