County report card · Indiana
Lake County, Indiana
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 502,955
- 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: tapestry.fidlar.com, engage.xsoftinc.com/lake, www.lcrecorder.com/, lakecountyin.gov/departments/tax-search, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/, portico.mygisonline.com/html5/?viewer=lakeinsurveyor
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.