County report card · Indiana
Fountain County, Indiana
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 16,833
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
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/fountain/, www.fountaincounty.net/department/index.php?structureid=25, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/, lowtaxinfo.com/fountaincounty, beacon.schneidercorp.com/?site=FountainCountyIN
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.