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Hall Monitor: Where to find info on Sheriff's sales? Not the Sheriff's website.
The website has been down for months, with no hope of a new one in sight.
Hall Monitor: Where to find info on Sheriff's sales? Not the Sheriff's website.
Say you wanted to find out information about a scheduled sheriff's sale — say, the one held Wednesday.Where would you look?
Not, we hope, on the "Internet."
Should you attempt it, you might be fooled into clicking a link titled "Sheriff's Sale Schedule" on www.phillysheriff.com — on which the most recent sheriff's sale listed is five months old, and which contains exactly zilch (0) when it comes to information on upcoming sales, including Wednesday's.
It turns out that the office no longer takes responsibility for that site at all, according to spokesman Joseph Blake, who told CP that "That's an old website. We don't even have a new website yet!"
The site, which was designed by the politically connected firm Reach Communications (founded by the brother of an employee of the office), was rather infamously hacked last summer. Interim sheriff Barbara Deely fired Reach, but the site remains up, albeit without much function.
The sheriff's Blake told Hall Monitor that "when the [Jewell Williams] administration took over, it was a legal battle to get them" — it wasn't clear if he meant Reach Communications or not — "to take it down. It's hard for us to put up a new website when they" — Reach? "have that old one up."
An RFP for a new site, Blake says, has been issued.
Asked why the Sheriff's Office didn't simply request technical support from the city's Office of Information Technology, Blake answered: "I wish it were that simple."
Seems like another grossly incompetent machine patronage mill the state should take over. The criminals are running the sheriffs office.
470 mm in uncollected property taxes going back decades. Foreclosure moratorium. Refusal to collect bonds on fugitive convicts.— samac- thankfully the legal intelligencer carries all the updated tax/forclosure sales for Philly.. you cant thank me later:)
http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/specials.jsp?p=public_notices
— mathenjp
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