Dubois County Joins Doxpop Property Watch

Today, we welcome Dubois County to the Doxpop Property Watch system. Doxpop Property Watch allows property owners in Dubois County to monitor the Recorder's office for newly filed documents that affect their property. This service is provided at no cost to the public and is available at watch.doxpop.com. Dubois County has been adding many Doxpop services recently. The clerk's office in Dubois County also uses the Doxpop on-line Fine Payment service that allows payment of traffic tickets on-line, and an eFiling service that streamlines case processing.

Feel free to give us a call or email if you have any questions. (support@doxpop.com or 866-369-7671).

Madison County, Indiana Switches to New Case Management System

The Madison County Courts have switched to a new Case Management system. This affects the availability of Madison County information on Doxpop. It does not affect cases in Pendleton or Anderson city courts.

As of Monday, October 11th, all cases filed in Madison Circuit and Superior Courts have been transferred to the Odyssey system of the Indiana Supreme Court. That means that updates for these cases will no longer be received by Doxpop. Existing case information on Doxpop from before that date continues to be available and searchable until further notice.

You can search for new cases and updates to existing cases filed in the Madison Circuit and Superior Courts on the state court administration web site: http://mycase.in.gov/default.aspx

Feel free to give us a call or email if you have any questions. ( support@doxpop.com or 866-369-7671 )

Important Note: This county's data was restored to the Doxpop system in November, 2011. Read the details here: http://blog.doxpop.com/2011/11/long-odyssey-doxpops-4-year-quest-pays.html

Vermillion County Recorder Joins Doxpop

The Vermillion County Recorder, Lori Porter, has just become the 14th Indiana Recorder to make recorded document index and image information available on the web via Doxpop. Lori is also providing the Doxpop Property Watch Service to her community. Both services are provided on the web without the need to dip into the pockets of taxpayers, proving once again that county government in Indiana can still teach our state a few lessons about efficiency and accountability.

Local property owners who wish to receive email notification when documents referencing their property are filed by the Recorder may go to watch.doxpop.com to register. It costs nothing to use this free service.

Access to detailed index and image information is provided at www.doxpop.com as a subscription service designed to serve businesses. Fees collected for the subscription service allow Doxpop and the Recorder's Office to provide these services with no public funding. The recorded document index information for Vermillion County dates back to August of 1994. Scanned images of documents begin in December of 1997. Vermillion County indexes over 69,000 documents, with images provided for 44,000. In all, Doxpop now provides index information for 5.1 million Indiana recorded documents and images for 4.1 million documents.

Vermillion County's Court Records have been available online at Doxpop since 2009 thanks to the efforts of Clerk Florinda Pruitt and Judge Bruce Stengel. Doxpop provides similar public access services to several other counties in the region including Vigo, Sullivan, Clay, Putnam, Montgomery, and Fountain.

Hancock County, Indiana joins Doxpop Fine Payment

Doxpop is pleased to announce that the Hancock County Clerk is now using the Doxpop Online Fine Payment Service.

The Hancock County Courts in Greenfield, Indiana handle many citations for drivers in Greenfield and other surrounding areas. Interstate 70 runs through Hancock County, and the Mount Comfort Road exit feeds traffic traveling through McCordsville using Olio Road to get to other areas such as Fishers and Noblesville. Doxpop Fine Payment helps these drivers pay their tickets on-line without the need to travel to the county courthouse with cash or a certified check in hand.

Doxpop understands that it's no fun to pay a traffic ticket, but we are doing what we can to help by simplifying the payment process and allowing drivers to focus instead on avoiding future citations.

Marshall County, Indiana: Welcome to Doxpop Fine Payment

Doxpop is excited to announce the addition of Marshall County, Indiana to our growing list of partner counties utilizing this service. Drivers and others with traffic infractions and ordinance violations in Marshall County now have the convenience of paying their fines and fees online with a credit or debit card. Please visit http://payment.doxpop.com to take a look at this service today.

The county seat of Marshall County is Plymouth. Major highways within the county include US 6, 30, and 31, as well as State Roads 8, 10, 17, 106, 110, 117, and 331.

Franklin County, Indiana joins Doxpop Fine Payment

Doxpop is pleased to welcome Franklin County, Indiana as the newest county to join Doxpop's Fine Payment service. Franklin is the seventh county to provide drivers with the option to pay their traffic fines on-line with a credit or debit card.

Truckers who have received traffic citations on I-74 while traveling through the southern part of the state may pay their fines conveniently in their homes in other states. Local residents, or those vacationing around Brookville Lake, can save a trip to the courthouse by paying their fines on-line.

People wishing to pay citations on-line may visit http://payment.doxpop.com

Yorktown Town Court Records Now Available

Doxpop is pleased to announce the addition of Yorktown Town Court as the newest local government information provider in the Doxpop community. Yorktown records can be found by searching for court records in Delaware County, Indiana.

Doxpop would like to offer a very special thank you to Judge Patricia Zeabart for her help in making Yorktown records available on Doxpop. She started this effort in 2004 and we are pleased to finally be able to reward her patient encouragement. Doxpop plans to add many more municipal courts in the next year. We recognize the value that these locally focused and locally accountable courts add to the judicial system in Indiana.

Allen County Converts to New Case Management System

Important Note: This county's data was restored to the Doxpop system in November, 2011. Read the details here: http://blog.doxpop.com/2011/11/long-odyssey-doxpops-4-year-quest-pays.html

The courts of Allen County, Indiana, are in the midst of a major conversion from an electronic case management system that they have used for many years to a new one being distributed by the Indiana Supreme Court, and called Odyssey. This change is affecting the availability of Allen County cases on the Doxpop online access service.

With regard to criminal and citation cases:

1. New criminal and citation cases (infraction, ordinance violation, misdemeanor, and felony) filed in the Allen County courts will not be accessible on Doxpop.
2. Criminal and citation cases included in the Doxpop database before September 7, 2010 will continue to be available on Doxpop for approximately one week until the migration of those cases to the Odyssey system is complete.
3. Those cases mentioned in #2 will NOT receive any new entries or updates from the Allen County courts.
4. Eventually all historical cases will also be converted to the new case management system.
5. As soon as the conversion of all cases to the new system is complete, Doxpop will remove those cases from our database and they will no longer be accessible on Doxpop.
6. Allen County criminal and citation cases can be sought at the state web site for online access, http://mycase.in.gov.
7. Until we remove Allen County criminal and citation cases from Doxpop altogether, it might be wise for searchers to provide a double layer of security by searching both Doxpop and mycase.in.gov for case information to prevent something “slipping through the cracks”.

With regard to civil cases:

1. Doxpop continues to display all disposed and open civil cases for Allen County. We also continue to show all newly-filed cases and updates to existing cases, with updates occurring daily.
2. At some future point, Allen County will move these cases, also, to the Odyssey system. At that point Doxpop will cease to display them on line. We will provide clear notice about that next step in this conversion as soon as we know dates and details.


Additional Background and Explanation

Doxpop has enjoyed a very positive relationship with the Allen County courts and Clerk of Circuit Court for several years. Under the rules of the Indiana Supreme Court the local courts and clerk could elect to publish all criminal, civil, and citation cases on line via the Internet for remote access. The decision to provide this convenience service in partnership with Doxpop was the prerogative of the local officials, with the approval of the administrative division of the Indiana Supreme Court.

Court case information is sent to Doxpop through secure, automated, and regular updates from our partner courts. Doxpop retains an exact image of the case information sent to our servers by partner courts, an image that we never edit, abridge or change in any way.

Allen County has chosen to adopt and install a new case management system named Odyssey, which has been developed using public funds and is being distributed to Indiana courts by the Judicial Automation and Technology Committee (JTAC) of the Indiana Supreme Court. The Doxpop team has known for some time that Allen County was engaged in this process, although there has been prolonged uncertainty about when the actual transfer of case data to the new system would occur. Doxpop received notice of the effective date of the data transfer only when it was actually in process.

The Indiana Supreme Court takes the position that cases filed and maintained on the Odyssey system are no longer under the discretionary control of the local courts and clerk with regard to public access under the applicable Trial Rule 77(k) and Administrative Rule 9. Decisions about online publication of court case records now, consequently, are entirely within the purview of the Indiana Supreme Court.

Doxpop filed a request with the Court three years ago to receive records from the Odyssey system so that we could continue to provide advanced access, search, and management tools for our customers who use court records in Odyssey counties. The Court has not chosen yet to grant Doxpop access to the data.


Important Note: This county's data was restored to the Doxpop system in November, 2011. Read the details here: http://blog.doxpop.com/2011/11/long-odyssey-doxpops-4-year-quest-pays.html

Doxpop In the News

The growth of Doxpop's Fine Payment service has recently been reported by several Indiana newspapers and television stations as well as the Associated Press. Six counties participate in the service that allows those who need to pay traffic tickets to do so online with a credit card.

In an interview with The (Richmond) Palladium Item, Wayne County Clerk Jo Ann Stewart said the service is "especially useful for out-of-town motorists."

A recent broadcast on WTHI-TV in Terre Haute featured an interview with Sullivan County Clerk Shelly Hiatt Parris. She believes that Fine Payment is "so simple more people may be willing to pay their ticket in a timely fashion."

Dubois County, Indiana Joins Doxpop Finepay

Doxpop is pleased to announce that Dubois County is the latest addition to our growing list of partner counties using Doxpop Fine Payment. Those with traffic infractions and ordinance violations filed in Dubois County, Indiana now have the capabilities of paying their fines and fees online with a credit or debit card using http://payment.doxpop.com.

 Jasper is the county seat of Dubois County. Major highways in Dubois County include Interstate 64, US Route 231, and State Roads 56, 64, 145, 162, and 164.