PaigeTurner wrote "so whatever you chose to do or not to do is ok". Maybe, maybe not. My state, Vermont, has never required journals. Before the law changed in 2019 I emailed the person in the SOS office who paid attention to notaries. According to him, although notaries aren't required to keep journals, if they do, they would be records of a public official. As such, they would be subject to the Vermont Public Records Act, which is very complicated.
The Vermont League of Cities and Towns tries to explain it here:
https://www.vlct.org/municipal-assistance/municipal-topics/public-records-act |