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year as well as historical data back to the 2012-13 tax year after excluding previous audit misallocations identified by the City or its current contractor. HdLCC has the technology, methodology and trained staff to analyze all secured parcels within the City to identify costly errors resulting in the misallocation of property taxes. The Orange County Assessor, beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year, has determined that the situs addresses on the secured tax roll are confidential information and has not included that field on the data available for purchase. HdLCC has been purchasing data from Orange County for 22 years and has been archiving situs address on properties during that time. Where a parcel number has not changed, HdLCC has updated the address from previous rolls to complete the database. If the parcels have been re - mapped and we can ascertain a direct relationship between the old and new parcel, we have updated the address. New parcels added since 2004-05 have addresses updated from other data sources making the percentage of situs addresses available in Santa Ana 97% on the secured roll. HdLCC audits the secured and property records two ways: first reviewing the entire county to find parcels miscoded to other jurisdictions; and second, reviewing the parcels within the city, county or agency to ensure that each is coded to the appropriate taxing entity. Our advanced technology, accuracy and track record have placed us in a unique position to be hired by cities to find additional revenues after audits have been performed by prior consultants. In addition, by filing audit results with the County Assessor in a timely manner, we can assure that the repetitive errors from previous years will not reoccur. Unsecured Audits The Orange County Assessor has always considered unsecured property addresses a confidential field of information and therefore does not include this data on the lien date database sold to outside purchasers. Addresses are a critical field of data required for auditing unsecured property as it is reported based on situs address This makes performing reviews on the unsecured (business property) a challenge because if the County fails to indicate where the property is located as a field in their database, it is Page 1 15