Know Thine Enemy: Nat'l Assoc of Secretaries of State

This report is designed to provide state filing offices and other government agencies with an understanding of these relatively new laws, as well as the issues they seek to address. Section One provides background information on the rise in fraudulent filings, shedding light on the growing sovereign citizen movement and the most common types of bogus filings. Section Two provides an overview of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and the important influence that this model law has on the role and authority of state filing offices. Section Three outlines the 2006 NASS/IACA Task Force recommendations and highlights recent state approaches to the proliferation of bogus filings.