Mahoning microfilm department set for move to Oakhill


YOUNGSTOWN

As Mahoning County tries to catch up on a backlog of paper court documents that must be transferred to microfilm, its microfilm department will move this year from the county courthouse basement to Oakhill Renaissance Place, where it will have larger and more secure quarters.

The county commissioners said they may outsource some of the transferring of documents to microfilm to a private company to catch up on the backlog and eliminate the rows of court documents in cardboard boxes in a courthouse hallway that await transfer to microfilm.

Audrey Tillis, county budget director, said some of the court documents awaiting transfer to microfilm date back to the 1990s.

“There’s plenty of space for storage” of records at Oakhill, which is the former Forum Health Southside Medical Center and now a county office complex, said Anthony Traficanti, chairman of the county commissioners.

“There are so many files. There’s so much retention that we have to do by law,” Traficanti said. “We’re hoping we can clean that up,” he said of the row of cardboard boxes.

Read more about the project and what that means for residents wanting to access county records in Tuesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.