This issue is in reference to a public record for a tax lien that was released in XXXX. The West Virginia XXXX XXXX office failed to release the lien at the time of settlement. This was not completed until XXXX. The state office stated that it was not possible to retroactively change the release date in their computer systems. Instead, they noted the official court document with the correct date and provided me with a copy. 

I submitted disputes with the XXXX primary credit reporting agencies. XXXX of them accepted the updated court documents and immediately changed the entries. In XXXX ( XXXX years after the lien ), the entries dropped off as they should. 

Equifax refuses to change the release date and still report it as XXXX. This means that the record will remain on my credit report until XXXX. 

Even worse, the public record appears on their report in XXXX separate entries. There is XXXX using the court booking number ( beginning with XXXX ), the other using the state lien file number ( beginning with XXXX ). Everything is the same about these XXXX entries except for those XXXX numbers. The lien dollar amount, the date filed, the state it was filed from, the XXXX release date, the contact information for the state office are identical. 

Multiple disputes have been opened over the last two years. For all of them I either emailed, faxed, or physically mailed the updated court document with contact information for the Tax Compliance department. Several Equifax CSRs verbally confirmed that they see the correction on the document. They also confirmed that the public records are duplicated. Even so, the final investigation results dispute comes back with the same conclusion. 

I have followed Equifax process and received no resolution to my problem. At this point, I will have to seek legal counsel.