City gets computerized records system

By KAITLIN MCCALLUM
Register Citizen Staff
TORRINGTON — Finding information about the goings- on in Torrington just got a lot easier thanks to a computerized system implemented Thursday at City Hall.
The new system, which allows users to search by keyword, name and transaction type, catalogues land and vital record indexes and images of original documents on seven terminals in the city clerk’s office.
"It’s much less cumbersome than the old system," Town Manager Joseph Quartiero said. "All the images come up on the screen. It’s much easier to use."
The system was created by InfoQuick Solutions Inc. of Liverpool, N.Y., which specializes in municipal records management, and was funded through a $50,000 land preservation grant Quartiero applied for and received.
"We are the first town in the state of Connecticut to have this company as a vendor," Quartiero said. "We picked them because of their system and their expertise and their service and because of the cost."
In addition to vital and land records, sports and dog licenses will be available on the system in the near future.
Info Quick Solutions is looking into how to make the system available through the Internet.
"Anyone searching in our vault will now be using a new system," Quartiero said. "There will be seven terminals we can search and four we can input records through simultaneously, which will speed up our work."