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The Buzz
Buzzy the Buzzard
I have been reviewing legal notices in the paper and have been quite impressed with the range of information. Family issues: juvenile and parental rights, divorce proceedings… Public works: project proposals, public hearings, requests for bids, notices of completion… Estate notices: who died and who is in charge of what they left behind… Mortgage foreclosures: public auctions, tax sales…
That is a lot of community information, a lot of business and social transactions. A lot of questions come to mind. How do deadbeat parents and spouses know someone is looking for them? Is there a project that will affect your neighborhood? What could possibly be going on with the property down the street? How are we expected to find answers on the internet without some guidance? Google can return a million hits in a second, but if only one is relevant, how do you know to click?
As you contact your legislators about the publication of legal notices, let me share one fundamental fact of human nature. People will only seek information after they become aware of a problem that is relevant to them.
Community journalism is relevant. Print media may be declining, but a small town newspaper is still a tie that binds. And these newspapers depend on legal notices.
Your eye in the sky,
Buzzy
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