TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox.
The Westmoreland County Recorder of Deeds office at the courthouse in Greensburg will be closed Friday as technical staff work to complete a $90,000 computer system upgrade officials say will improve public access to property records.
The closure means the filing of deeds, mortgages and all other documents will be halted at 4 p.m. Thursday and not resume until 8:30 a.m. May 3, Recorder of Deeds Frank Schiefer said.
“In addition to cleaning up the public access site and giving it a fresh, cleaner look, this new system will allow us to pursue other projects in the near future. Those include expanding the types of documents that we can receive and record electronically and also a fraud alert system that will be available to the public,” Schiefer said.
Tribune-Review
Westmoreland County Recorder of Deeds Frank Schiefer takes his oath of office during the swearing in ceremony at the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg, on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019.
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox.
Westmoreland County commissioners are expected to settle a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by a former employee claiming she was fired by new Republican Recorder of Deeds Frank Schiefer after he took office in January.
The $27,500 settlement includes no admission of wrongdoing, officials said Wednesday.
The lawsuit was filed by former office supervisor Alida Patterson, 34, of Latrobe, a employee in the Recorder of Deeds Office since 2015. She was fired by Schiefer, the incoming office holder, on his first day on the job.