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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Ind. Gov't - Vanderburgh County recorder's office records now online, for a fee

Jimmy Nesbitt of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today:

Digital records of documents at the Vanderburgh County recorder's office are now available online.

County Recorder Betty Knight Smith has planned a seminar from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday in Room 301 of the Civic Center to discuss software used to download the documents. Representatives from Fidlar Software and the county recorder's office will demonstrate two remote access products, Laredo and Tapestry.

Laredo allows remote Internet access to county recorder records for a monthly subscription cost, which begins at $50 a month for up to 250 minutes of use to $250 a month for unlimited usage. It is the same software used at the public terminals in the recorder's office. Documents can be printed for a fee of $1 a page. A downloadable version of Laredo Software is available at www.fidlar.com.

Tapestry is a pay-as-you-go program that also allows remote Internet access. It is best suited for people who only occasionally need a document from the recorder's office. A quick search using Tapestry will cost $3.99 and an advanced search will cost $6.99. The user will pay 50 cents for each page viewed.

Note that this is different from the Vanderburgh County assessor's records, which have been online since 2004 - see ILB entry here.

And this is different from the Vanderburgh County court records, which are not online. See this ILB entry from Sept. 24, 2006, headed "Vanderburgh County seeks to put court records online at no cost to public."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 5, 2007 11:16 AM
Posted to Indiana Government