Pinellas Clerk and Property Apprasier Unity to Provide Better Technology

Pinellas County's Clerk of the Circuit Court, Ken Burke, and Property Appraiser, Pam Dubov, have each added a new function to their respective websites, making each site a more powerful and useful tool, especially for those in the real estate, title, or insurance industries.

Many people who use the Property Appraiser’s website, www.pcpao.org, need to view a parcel’s deed, but deeds are stored on the Clerk’s website, www.mypinellasclerk.org. To facilitate this need, the Property Appraiser added links that go to the Clerk’s site. These new links can be found near the sales transaction information on the Property Appraisers site. Customers can now follow these links directly to an image of the parcel’s deed. If the deed is not in the system and an electronic image is not available, a message displays alerting the customer. Similarly, on the Clerk’s website, links from the Official Records Search Page will redirect customers to the Property Appraiser information associated with a particular parcel.

Technological advances

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