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Clerk Alert

Discover Your Family History Your Clerk’s Office Wins 12 FCCC Best
With The Clerk’s Office Practices Recognitions
The Florida Court Clerks & Comptrollers awarded our
If you’ve ever wondered office with their Recognition of Excellence certificates
about your family history, in all 12 best practices categories of their Best Practices
and they have a connection Excellence Program for 2022.
with beautiful Palm Beach Our office was one of 30 that scored perfect in every
County, the Clerk’s office is category, which includes eviction, evidence storage
here to help with resources to and destruction, public records requests, request to
assist you in your genealogy redact exempt personal information and exploitation of From left to right, 2022/23 FCCC President and Martin
journey. vulnerable adult injunction. County Clerk of Court and Comptroller Carolyn Timmann,
As the keeper of Palm Congratulations to everyone at the Clerk of the Circuit Chief of Staff and Chief Deputy Clerk Shannon Ramsey-
Beach County’s court and Court & Comptroller, Palm Beach County! Chessman and Criminal Court Services Court Operations
official records, our office is Director Louis Tomeo
one of the first places to start
when doing genealogical research. Through our collection
of court records, mortgages, deeds, marriage and divorce Chief Officer Amy
records, you can begin to piece together parts of their lives Borman Graduates
from physical and digital official documents. From Leadership
Microfilm and microfiche are the primary mediums Engage
where we store documents from as far back as the late 1800s.
While we are working to digitize more of our historical Congratulations
documents, for now you will need to visit our Records to Amy Borman, our
Services Center on the fourth floor of the Main Courthouse chief legal officer and
to access these records. chief operating officer
There is no cost to do a records search on your own in for Courts and Official
the Records Service Center. If you request someone from Records, for graduating
our office to do the search for you, Florida law requires a f ro m L e a de rsh i p
service charge of $2. This charge is levied per name or legal Palm Beach County’s
description per year researched. For example, having staff Leadership Engage on
search for a name over a five-year period would be $10. Thursday, June 2!
For more recent records, we have documents from 1968 This nine-month-
to the present available online to search. Searching is free and long program brings
easy using our office’s online Public Search portal. Simply together a range of
type in a name and an optional date range to get started. You motivated, informed and
can filter by document type such as deed, mortgage, marriage diverse professionals
record and more. Once you find a document, it is easy to who are selected for Chief Legal Officer Amy Borman with the Leadership Engage Class of 2022
download a PDF copy for free to your personal computer. their leadership and
If you have any questions about how to access our service within Palm Beach County. The program fosters Clerk Alert on page 6
records, do not hesitate to reach out to me or my incredibly awareness of community issues and promotes efficient
helpful staff. communication and cooperative relationships between
Regards, existing and emerging community leaders.
Joseph Abruzzo,
Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller

Clerk Joseph Abruzzo Becomes Certified
Florida Clerk And Comptroller
C l e rk Jo se p h
Abruzzo has been
recognized by Florida
Court Clerks &
Comptrollers (FCCC)
for completing FCCC’s
Class of 2020 New
Clerk Academy and
earning the designation
of Certified Florida
Clerk and Comptroller.
Clerk Abruzzo was
presented with a certificate by Manatee County Clerk of Court
and Comptroller and 2021/22 FCCC President Angelina
“Angel” Colonneso, Esq.
The New Clerk Academy is an extensive certification
program for newly elected clerks and comptrollers.

Chief Of Staff Shannon Ramsey-Chessman
Completes Term As FGFOA President

Congratulations to
Chief Deputy Clerk and
Chief of Staff Shannon
Ramsey-Chessman for
completing her term as
president of the Florida
Government Finance
Officer’s Association.
The FGFOA serves
more than 2,800
professionals from
state, county and city
governments, school Licensed and Insured
districts, colleges and
universities, special
districts and private
firms.
She celebrated this
week at the FGFOA conference with members of our
executive team and was presented a recognition award
by incoming president Jonathan C. McKinney, finance
director of the City of Port Orange.