Article: INDIANA SUPREME COURT CANCELS CONTRACT TO LINK ALL DOCUMENTS ONLINE COURT RECORDS HIT SNAG

Need to look up court records from your divorce? How about checking into the criminal background of a possible tenant before you lease to him? Think you might log onto your computer and search for court records online?

Think again.

To view Indiana court records, people still must visit the courthouse. If your case was filed in another county, then you must drive to the courthouse in that county's seat. Though appellate and federal cases are posted online, Indiana trial court records remain stuck in the pre-Internet era.

The Indiana Supreme Court has tried to link the different record- keeping systems of nearly 400 courts in all 92 counties, so judges could access court records from other ...

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