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Commissioners give first reading to ordinance limiting commercial scraping of public records

La Porte County Board of Commissioners · July 3, 2025
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Summary

The board read Ordinance No. 25-3 by title — a first reading that would let the county ask whether requests are for commercial use and require affidavits to deter bulk commercial harvesting of records; no final vote was taken.

La Porte County commissioners gave a first reading on July 2 to Ordinance No. 25-3, an ordinance intended to regulate disclosure and use of public records for commercial purposes and to protect certain lists from disclosure under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.

The ordinance, read by title only as a first reading, would allow county staff…

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