State Resources
Indiana
MyCase covers the state for free, and Indiana State Police will sell anyone a criminal history for $16.32. Just understand what the word “limited” means in that product name, because it’s doing a lot of work.
At a glance
| Record | Held by | Cost | Online |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and entity search | Secretary of State — INBiz | Free to search | Yes |
| UCC filings | Secretary of State — UCC, via INBiz | Free to search | Yes |
| Professional licenses | Professional Licensing Agency | Free | Yes |
| Property and land records | County recorder and county assessor | Free online in most counties | By county |
| Court records | Indiana Courts — MyCase | Free | Yes |
| Criminal records | Indiana State Police — Limited Criminal History | $16.32 per name | Yes |
| Vital records | Department of Health, Vital Records | Certified copies carry a fee | Yes |
| Unclaimed property | Office of the Attorney General | Free | Yes |
| Voter and resident records | Indiana Voters | Free | Yes |
Worth knowing about Indiana
“Limited Criminal History” means arrests, not convictions
Indiana State Police sell a Limited Criminal History online for $16.32 per name, by credit card, and it’s open to the public.
The word limited isn’t marketing. The report contains felonies and misdemeanor arrests within Indiana — and that’s the whole scope. It’s an arrest-based record. It won’t reliably tell you what happened afterwards.
The search runs on name, date of birth, race and gender, with Social Security number and place of birth used if needed to narrow it. The more of those you supply the better the match, and a name-and-DOB-only search on a common Indiana name will return people who are not your subject.
So treat it as a pointer. It tells you an arrest exists; MyCase tells you what the court did about it. Running the ISP report without then reading the docket is how an arrest ends up in a report as a conviction.
MyCase is statewide but not uniformly deep
Indiana’s courts moved onto a common case management system county by county, and MyCase reflects that history. Coverage is statewide now, but how far back a county goes depends on when it converted.
The counties that came late have shallower histories online. If a search on a person you know has Indiana history returns nothing before a certain year in one county, that’s the conversion date showing, not a clean record.
Indiana also has town and city courts handling ordinance violations and minor traffic separately from the circuit and superior courts. Not all of them feed MyCase.
Record by record
Business and entity search
Open INBiz →- Held by
- Secretary of State — INBiz
- Cost
- Free to search
Free business search returning entity status, formation date, registered agent and principal office, with filed documents viewable.
Indiana requires a business entity report every two years rather than annually, so address information here can be a full two years stale even on an entity in good standing. Check the date on the last filing before you rely on the address.
UCC filings
Open INBiz →- Held by
- Secretary of State — UCC, via INBiz
- Cost
- Free to search
UCC filings run through the same INBiz portal as business entities.
A UCC-1 names the debtor, the secured party and the collateral. The secured party is usually a lender, which makes this one of the few free routes to where a business banks.
Professional licenses
Open licensing agency →- Held by
- Professional Licensing Agency
- Cost
- Free
Indiana runs a genuine central licensing agency covering most professions and trades, with a public verification search.
Verification returns legal name, license status, dates and disciplinary history.
Property and land records
- Held by
- County recorder and county assessor
- Cost
- Free online in most counties
No statewide property search. Each of the 92 counties runs its own, with the recorder holding documents and the assessor holding ownership and value.
Indiana counties widely use the same handful of vendors, so once you have used one the next is familiar. The state also publishes a property tax portal that’s useful for confirming a parcel and its billing address — and a billing address that differs from the property address is worth noticing.
Court records
Open MyCase →- Held by
- Indiana Courts — MyCase
- Cost
- Free
Free statewide case search covering circuit, superior and most city and town courts. Criminal, civil, family, probate, small claims and infractions.
Search by party name statewide, or narrow to a county. Case detail includes the chronological case summary, which is the entry-by-entry history and the part worth reading.
Criminal records
Open ISP criminal history →- Held by
- Indiana State Police — Limited Criminal History
- Cost
- $16.32 per name
Open to the public, online, credit card. Contains Indiana felonies and misdemeanor arrests. See the section above on what “limited” excludes.
Always pair it with the MyCase docket for any case it surfaces. The report establishes that something happened; the docket establishes what.
Vital records
Open vital records →- Held by
- Department of Health, Vital Records
- Cost
- Certified copies carry a fee
Births and deaths from the state office, with local health departments also able to issue. Indiana restricts certified copies to people with a direct interest.
Unclaimed property
Open unclaimed property →- Held by
- Office of the Attorney General
- Cost
- Free
Free name search. Indiana moved unclaimed property to the Attorney General, so older guides point at the wrong agency.
The holder named on a reported item is the useful part on a locate — a confirmed bank, insurer or employer relationship, reported with a last known address.
Voter and resident records
Open voter lookup →- Held by
- Indiana Voters
- Cost
- Free
Individual registration status lookup. Indiana restricts the bulk voter file to political and governmental use, so this is a one-subject confirmation tool.
Public records requests in Indiana
- Statute
- Ind. Code § 5-14-3 (Access to Public Records Act)
- Response deadline
- 24 hours for in-person or phone, seven days for mail or email
- Appeal to
- Public Access Counselor
- Appeal window
- 30 days from the denial
Indiana has a Public Access Counselor, an independent state office whose entire job is answering questions and deciding complaints about records access. It’s free, informal, and you don’t need a lawyer.
The Counselor issues advisory opinions rather than orders, but they carry weight: an agency that ignores one and then loses in court is exposed on attorney fees. Most agencies fold at the complaint stage.
The response deadlines are unusually short — 24 hours for a request made in person or by phone, seven days for one sent by mail or email. That’s a response, not necessarily the records.
File within 30 days of the denial. That window is strict.
What Indiana will not give you
- Expunged records. Indiana expungement is comparatively broad. Sealed cases leave the public index.
- Driver and vehicle records. Closed under the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act.
- Juvenile records. Not public.
- Investigatory records of law enforcement. Discretionary exemption, and agencies use it freely.
- The bulk voter file. Restricted to political and governmental use.
Related
- Ohio — next door, and far harder
- Kansas — a $30 criminal history anyone can order
- Minnesota — the same thing for free
- UCC filings name the lender
- Appealing a public records denial
Fees and procedures verified August 2026. Clerks change their counter rules more often than the statutes change — call before you drive.