Hendricks County Recorder Joins Doxpop

 

The Hendricks County Recorder is pleased to announce two new services for providing access to Hendricks County's Recorded documents through the web.

 

The index and images of documents filed in January, 1977 or later are now available on-line at http://www.doxpop.com. Basic information about the documents is available at no cost. Detailed information and documents images are available as a fee-based service.

 

In addition, The Recorder's Office now offers a free property watch service to our community. Any person may sign up at http://watch.doxpop.com to set a watch on his or her property and name. Participants are notified via email any time a document is filed that references the watched property or name.

 

Both of these services have been provided without any use of public funding (no use of tax money.) The access provided by these services is in addition to the public access already provided at the courthouse.

 

For additional information, contact Theresa Lynch at  the Recorder's Office, (317) 745-9224 or Nick Fankhauser at Doxpop, LLC; (765) 373-9245; nickf@doxpop.com.

Switzerland County, Indiana Joins Doxpop

Kim Hambrick, Switzerland County Clerk, is pleased to announce a new service for the public: 

People wishing to access public court cases on-line may access the information at http://www.doxpop.com. This web site is designed primarily to serve attorneys and other professionals who use court information with fee-based services, but it also provides low-volume access to the general public at no cost.  

Doxpop currently provides on-line access to court information in 85 Indiana counties. 

Doxpop is provided without any use of public funding or tax money. 

For additional information, contact Kim Hambrick at the Clerk's Office, (812) 427-4415 or Nick Fankhauser at Doxpop, LLC; (765) 373-9245.

 

Noble County Court Records Added to Doxpop

Shelley Mawhorter, Noble County Clerk, is pleased to announce two new services for the public: 

People wishing to pay fines for traffic citations or other infractions online may go to http://payment.doxpop.com, find the infraction, and pay in a matter of minutes. The total payment, including the online transaction fee, is calculated and displayed prior to the completion of the transaction. The fines are sent to the clerk and the payer notified via email when the payment is accepted, typically within 5 minutes. 

People wishing to access public court cases on-line may access the information at http://www.doxpop.com. This web site is designed primarily to serve attorneys and other professionals who use court information with fee-based services, but it also provides low-volume access to the general public at no cost.  

Doxpop currently provides on-line access to court information in 84 Indiana counties, and fine payment services for 26 Indiana counties. 

Both of these services have been provided without any use of public funding or tax money. 

For additional information, contact Shelley Mawhorter at the Clerk's Office, (260) 636-2736 or Nick Fankhauser at Doxpop, LLC; (765) 373-9245.

Hancock County Converts to Odyssey

Hancock County has just made the switch to JTAC's Odyssey System for management of court cases. We wanted to take a moment to update our customers on some oddities you may notice while this change takes place. The most important thing to remember is that all Hancock County information will remain available on Doxpop. All other Doxpop counties are not affected by this change.

How does this change affect Doxpop customers in Hancock County?

The biggest change taking place is that Hancock County will no longer be participating in Doxpop's online fine payment service. Here are a few other changes worth mentioning:

• When you use Doxpop's personal calendar feature, you will see two colors for Hancock County on your calendar. Every event will be available, but the older cases will have a different color from the newer cases. When we complete the merge process, these will go back to being a single color.
• When you look at Hancock County's Details Page, you will find two entries for each court until the merge is complete.
• If you use any of our email alert services, you may receive extra notifications during the transition period.
• When you are doing searches, you will find two entries for some cases. This is because while we are loading the information from Odyssey, we will also be maintaining the old data until the operation is complete to ensure you don't miss anything. When you see two case entries, please look at both to ensure you have the most current information.

• The only lasting change in available information is the financial information. The Indiana Division of State Court Administration has informed us that the clerks using the Odyssey system prefer that financial information not be made public. The Clerks in the other 48 counties we serve have decided that this is useful information that the public should have access to, so we're puzzled that only Clerks using Odyssey have decided not to share this information. If you think financial transactions are an important part of the public record, please ask the clerks you work with to contact the Division about making it available through Doxpop.

This transition should not take long and everything will be back to normal within a week.

If you have any questions regarding this transition, please call our toll free number at 866-369-7671.

Saint Joseph Criminal Cases Added To Doxpop

We have some exciting news to share today. Back in November, 2011, Saint Joseph county was one of the counties to join Doxpop with the addition of all Odyssey counties. However, we only had access to traffic infraction and ordinance violation records in Saint Joseph county. Today we are excited to announce that Doxpop users can also search criminal case information filed in Saint Joseph County. Court case information includes all criminal misdemeanor and felony cases, as well as some miscellaneous criminal cases. These records are available from January 2009 forward, and are updated in near real-time.

A caring community steps forward to collect a $5,000 matching donation for Pro Bono from Doxpop.

For several years, Wayne County and the City of Richmond have enjoyed the benefit of having a local Pro Bono office with regular walk-in hours and a calm, understanding staff ready to help people in need. This office was funded in part by the Robert Maley Pro Bono Foundation, and in part by IOLTA funds directed from the Indiana Pro Bono Commission.

Then in 2012, the Indiana Pro Bono Commission reduced the number of Pro Bono districts in Indiana from 14 to 12. This redistricting process resulted in Wayne County and the City of Richmond becoming a part of "District J", which has one office... In Lawrenceburg. (Yep... 60 miles away.) It's a nice office with helpful people, but that's a long distance for someone in Richmond who needs more than a telephone interview.

Fortunately, our local legal community has stepped up to the challenge, and the Whitewater Valley Pro Bono Commission now provides most of the funding that used to come from the State with local donations.  However, every year, it's a challenge for them to fully fund the office.

This year, Doxpop decided to do our part by making a matching donation challenge to our community. Doxpop offered to match any individual donations to the Whitewater Valley Pro Bono Commission up to a total of $5,000. We're proud to say that in less than a month, 28 of our our neighbors stepped forward with enough individual donations to claim the entire $5,000 in matching funds. We're mighty proud of those neighbors!

Doxpop also provides free service to any of Indiana's 12 district Pro Bono coordinators and their staff, and has been providing free service to the excellent staff of Indiana Legal Services since 2006. If you are a volunteer or paid staff member of any of these organizations, and are not already taking advantage of this service, please give us a call at 866-369-7671 so we can support the good work that you do.

Tax warrant updates for JTAC counties will be restored soon.

Doxpop expects to restore updates to tax warrants for counties using the JTAC system within the next two weeks.

In mid-December, the folks at JTAC notified us that they would no longer be sending tax warrants through the previously established data feed, effective immediately. While negotiating an alternative data feed, we have kept the previously supplied tax warrants in our database. However, we caution users that because no updates are arriving, we cannot indicate when the debt has been satisfied on these warrants.

An alternate data feed has now been proposed, and we are in the process of integrating the new data into our system. It will take a couple of weeks to do this with the proper care. Thanks for your patience while we work through this unanticipated interruption!

When the first updates occur, we'll announce it on this blog. Stay tuned.

Updates to Tax Warrants no longer available in counties using the JTAC/Odyssey case management system.

On 1/1/13, JTAC stopped sending updates to Doxpop for Tax Warrants filed in the counties using the Odyssey case management system.

We're currently working with the folks at JTAC to restore this data feed, but in the meantime, please be aware that we are not receiving new warrants or satisfaction information for existing warrants from these counties.

As soon as we have a target date for restoring Tax Warrant data, we'll post further information on this blog. We understand that this is important information for many of you.

Counties using other case management systems are not affected by this change.

The affected JTAC/Odyssey counties are:

1. Benton
2. Blackford
3. Carroll
4. Cass
5. Clark
6. DeKalb
7. Floyd
8. Grant
9. Greene
10. Hamilton
11. Harrison
12. Hendricks
13. Henry
14. Huntington
15. Jackson
16. Jasper
17. Jennings
18. Knox
19. LaPorte
20. Madison
21. Monroe
22. Owen
23. Parke
24. Posey
25. Scott
26. Shelby
27. Steuben
28. Tipton
29. Union
30. Warren
31. Washington

Welcome Putnam County Recorder!

The Putnam County Recorder is pleased to announce two new services for providing access to Putnam County's Recorded documents through the web. 

The index to documents filed in January 1992 or later and images of documents filed in January 1993 or later are now available on-line at http://www.doxpop.com. Basic information about the documents is available at no cost. Detailed information and documents images are available as a fee-based service. 

In addition, The Recorder's Office now offers a free property watch service to our community. Any person may sign up at http://watch.doxpop.com to set a watch on his or her property and name. Participants are notified via email any time a document is filed that references the watched property or name.  

Both of these services have been provided without any use of public funding (no use of tax money.) The access provided by these services is in addition to the public access already provided at the courthouse. 

For additional information, contact Opal Sutherlin at  the Recorder's Office, (765) 653-5613 or Nick Fankhauser at Doxpop, LLC; (765) 373-9245; nickf@doxpop.com.

 

Announcing the Whitewater Valley Pro Bono Commission Matching Grant

Doxpop, LLC supports the work of The Whitewater Valley Pro Bono Commission in Wayne County and is encouraging others to join them in supporting this worthy cause. The Pro Bono office provides low cost access to legal advice in non-criminal matters for those in our community who may not be able to afford to pay the full costs of hiring an attorney. The Pro Bono office is raising funds between now and December 31, 2012, and Doxpop is matching them, dollar for dollar, up to $1,000 per donor, maximum of $5,000. The local Pro Bono office lost funding due to reorganization at state level (nearest is now in Lawrenceburg), and this is an important need in our community. Contact the Whitewater Valley Pro Bono Commission to donate.

http://www.whitewatervalleyprobono.org/pleasedonate.html