County report card · Indiana
St. Joseph County, Indiana
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 273,744
- 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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.sjcindiana.com/412/Land-Records-Search, tapestry.fidlar.com, engage.xsoftinc.com/stjoseph/, in-stjosephcounty.civicplus.com/1649/Assessment-Neighborhood-Map, lowtaxinfo.com/sjcounty/#/SearchView, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
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.