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The criminal and civil court index for Hendricks County, Indiana is online. Searchable by name or case number, it covers cases filed from September 1992 to the present, and for criminal cases returns the defendant’s address, offense date and disposition. Vehicle related charges also list vehicle plate and driver license number. In my trial run of the site I was able to access some crimes by minors. Civil dockets are returned in queries of individual or company name.

The Indiana Legislature is reviewing a proposed bill that would make vital records – birth and death certificates – confidential and open to review only by certain classes of the public. Exceptions would be made for family members, genealogists and journalists – although it’s a questionable policy to give access to a specific segment of the general public, excluding others. The putative motive is to thwart terrorism and identity theft but no study or instance of the use of Indiana death records has linked death records to these activities, according to the report in the IndyStar.

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