Free Event Addressed Public Records and Real Estate Fraud

First American Data Tree hosted an informational program featuring panelists of elected and appointed clerk recorders, district attorneys and presidents of real estate information companies from Southern California at its Santa Ana campus on Wednesday, September 14, 2011.

The panel event was part of the inaugural Southern California Property Records Education Partners (PREP) Chapter, which is designated as an official work group of the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA). For more information visit www.pria.us.

Attendees of the PREP panel included corporate and government leaders, as well as law enforcement officials, in addition to other members of the property records industry. Topics included the importance of providing recorded documents to individuals and corporations, how accuracy in recorded property data affects the national economy, and the steps that are being taken to deter and prevent real estate fraud in counties nationwide.