County report card · Indiana
DeKalb County, Indiana
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 44,330
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar Technologies
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: engage.xsoftinc.com/dekalb, www.co.dekalb.in.us/department/?fDD=30-0, tapestry.fidlar.com, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=385&LayerID=6053&PageTypeID=2&PageID=3292, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/, lowtaxinfo.com/dekalbcounty
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Building on the protections already in place, you might consider a property-owner notification system (like the ones AZ, FL, HI, IL, and UT have implemented) and a formal data-governance policy that addresses commercial data aggregators.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.