Cicero (WSYR-TV) -- Public records should available to anyone who wants them, but a glitch has been keeping some information out of the public realm.
NewsChannel 9 viewer Jean Carter wanted to check the tax information for a property in Cicero. She says she tried to find the information on the county’s website, but the information wasn’t there and she wants to know why.
Well, every parcel of land has a unique number called a tax ID number. Jean wanted information on a property that had been given a new tax ID number. It, and several dozen others, lost a little bit of land to a water line project. Cicero Assessor Brad Brennan said the new ID number reflects the change in the size of the property.
The county’s database saw the new numbers and made new records for each, as if they were brand new parcels of land and not old parcels with new names.
There’s no other information for those parcels because the town hasn’t finished its assessment work for 2012 yet. Brennan says the data should be filled in by early next spring. He says people can call his office at 699-1410 if they find an incomplete record and want the details.
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