Biometric Lien (Self-Imposed)
1. Make an appointment by calling our office at 913-684-0424. Plan on 45 minutes to complete your recording.
2. Bring a credit card for the creation of the form to be filed. Then, preferred payment for the recording of your Self-Imposed Biometric Lien is cash or check to save you wait time and extra credit card fees. The cost of the recording is dependent on the length of your legal description. (Most city parcels are filed for a total of $78.00 each.)
3. All owners come to the appointment for your filing. Each person needs to present a valid state issued driver's license or passport for Identification.
4. You will leave your appointment with a recording stamped document for your records. An electronic copy will be emailed.
Details on the process:
A Self-Imposed Biometric Lien is a document created by Polsinelli Law firm. The grantee is “Public” on a document recorded as a lien thus showing up in a title search or when a bank is researching a potential mortgage. It is a method to notify banks, title companies, and fraudsters, that homeowners do not want their property conveyed or sold until they release the lien themselves.
The homeowner is in control. This is not mandatory. It is a voluntary recording completed at the request of the homeowners and paid by the homeowners. If there are three people that own the property, three biometric pictures are attached to one Self-Imposed Biometric Lien per parcel. When they chose to sell their home, the same three people come in to be photographed, which matches the original photos, to release the Self-Imposed Biometric Lien prior to filing the deed to convey their property or acquiring a mortgage. The filing of a death certificate releases their biometric lien by the deceased, and the other owners remain on the existing lien.
In two months of recording these bio liens, we pre-warned three customers recordings were coming that would affect their property. Appointments are required as we do prep work to be certain we freeze the correct deed. As an additional benefit, we have twice discovered errors in our land records so egregious that it caused one customer to need a survey.
My constituency is raving over how much they love the process. They often comment, “Now I feel safe.” We register one property and the owners tell ten more people.
If a fraudster comes in to convey a property by identity theft, we say, “Smile for the camera!” Criminals operate in anonymity and will run from a camera. If we do get a biometric picture, it will hold up in court as firm identification of the perpetrator.
This is a special 3D biometric liveness camera that cannot be deep faked by AI or a flat picture. The depth of the eye sockets, the width of the nose, the length of the chin and so on are all unique to you.
The camera and the computer with an application to request a bio lien be created or a picture be taken sits on the counter of my office, outside the firewall of Leavenworth County. The customer types in their information, adds the legal description and pays $20 by credit card through the application for the printed form that my office records for the state mandated recording fee (usually $55-$58 for three pages.)
The biometric photo is transferred to the vendor over the internet, sans any Personal Identifiable Information (PII). There is no metadata header information, so the vendor doesn’t know who they have and cannot search for a specific person.
Conversely, the county government never sees nor stores any biometrics, but we hold all the PII. There are two halves to every transaction connected only by an alphanumeric link. If the vendor were to be hacked, only penetrating multiply firewall layers, and breaking the encryption of each individual face map would only yield useless bits and bytes. The hacker wouldn’t know who they have, where they are located, what the transaction was, or have any contact information.
This process does not interfere with Power of Attorney nor Transfer on Death Deeds. Judicial action takes precedent over the biometric lien.
