Legal & compliance
Every record Permit Press distributes is already public: it comes from a government portal any member of the public can query directly. Normalizing it into one searchable feed does not change what lawful uses of that data are, but it does make misuse easier to do at scale, so this page states plainly what each record stream is and is not cleared for. It grows one section per record domain as each is added to the platform; this PR adds the first one.
Deed transfers, Notices of Commencement, and construction liens and their releases are read from a county Clerk of Court's Official Records search (currently Lee County's Landmark Web portal), the same public index the clerk itself publishes for anyone to search by name, document type, or date range. Permit Press republishes the fields that index carries: parties (grantor/grantee on a deed; owner/contractor on a Notice of Commencement), the recording date, the consideration or documentary stamp amount where the index carries one, and the legal description and parcel identifier, unedited from what the clerk indexes. See the adapter's own notes (worker/src/adapters/landmark-lee-clerk.ts) for exactly which fields come from the index versus are left blank because the index does not carry them.
Marketing and lead generation: identifying and contacting prospects such as a new homeowner in their first weeks of ownership, a general contractor with an active job on file, or a supplier tracking a lien to preserve its own rights. This is the intended use of this feed, and the one docs/EXPANSION-FEEDS.md builds it for.
Using this data, alone or combined with any other data, as a factor in deciding a consumer's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, or housing or tenancy is prohibited. That is an eligibility determination under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.); Permit Press is not a consumer reporting agency, this feed is not assembled or maintained to FCRA accuracy and dispute standards, and using it for an FCRA-covered purpose exposes the subscriber who makes that decision, not only Permit Press, to liability. Concretely: do not use a deed to help decide whether to extend credit or approve a lease application; do not use a lien to help decide whether to deny one.
Recorded instruments can be provisional and not yet verified by the clerk's own indexing (the clerk flags these distinctly; this feed preserves that flag as the record's raw status rather than resolving it), amended, or later found defective. Adapters never diff or interpret a record: they report what the portal currently shows, untouched, in raw_json. Permit Press takes no position on a document's legal effect and this feed is not a substitute for a title search.