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(A) The Sheriff of Warrick County.
(1) The Sheriff of Warrick County is authorized to accept a credit card or debit card for any required payment to the Sheriff of Warrick County; and
(2) The Sheriff of Warrick County is authorized and directed to charge and collect fees for the use of credit card or debit cards.
(B) The Warrick County Area Planning Commission (“APC”).
(1) The APC is authorized to accept bank and credit cards for any payment to the APC; and
(2) The APC is authorized and directed to charge and collect:
(a) A sum equal to the amount of the charge from the person who uses the bank card or credit card;
(b) An official fee that may not exceed the transaction charge or discount fee charged to the APC by any bank or credit card vendor; and
(c) A convenience fee of $3 for any payment to the APC by bank card or credit card.
(CC Ord. 2009-02, passed 5-7-09; Am. CC Ord. 2009-02, passed 6-4-09; Am. CC Res. 2024-04, passed 3-7-24)
It is the policy of the county that all locks, entry and exit access, surveillance cameras or policies, and any or all other security measures in all county owned buildings or facilities, including building fixtures or other appurtenances within said buildings or facilities (“security measures”) shall be subject to the exclusive authority of the Board of Commissioners. Subject to any exemptions granted by the Board of Commissioners from time to time, any alterations, modifications, or changes to security measures must first receive the approval of the Board of Commissioners by forwarding a request to the County Administrator, who shall thereupon present said request for official action by the Board of Commissioners as soon as reasonably practical. In the case of an emergency, the security measure may be enacted with written consensus of a majority of the Board of Commissioners, but said security measure shall be submitted for formal action by the Board of Commissioners at its next regularly scheduled meeting. The County Administrator may establish administrative rules and procedures for the implementation of this section.
(BC Ord. 2015-03, passed 2-9-15)
(A) Form and content of public records request.
(1) All requests for inspection or copying of public records must be:
(a) In writing; and
(b) Identify with reasonable particularity the record(s) being requested.
(2) No request complying with the Indiana Access to Public Records Act may be denied for failure to state the purpose of the request.
(B) Public records request. Any person making a request that complies with the requirements of division (A) above may inspect and copy the public records during the regular business hours of the county. If the county maintains the requested record in an electronic storage data system, and the county is able to retrieve those records through reasonable efforts, then the county shall provide a copy of all disclosable data via disk or any other method of electronic retrieval.
(C) Use of information for commercial purpose.
(1) Notwithstanding the above, if any office holder, department or division of the county believes the request is for any kind of commercial purpose, then all such persons making requests for public records must first verify in writing that they will not use the information for commercial purposes, including a statement that the requesting party shall not sell, advertise or solicit the purchase of merchandise, goods or services, or sell, loan, give away or otherwise deliver the information obtained by the request to any other person for these purposes. The verification shall be in the form prescribed herein, and the office holder, department or division of the county is under no obligation to comply with the request for records until this verification has been received.
(2) Use of information in connection with the preparation or publication of news, for nonprofit activities, or for academic research shall not be considered as use for commercial purposes and does not require written verification.
(D) Violations. A person who uses information in a manner contrary to this section or the verification provided for herein shall be prohibited from obtaining a copy of the requested data or any additional or future data requests from the county.
(E) Reasonable effort to provide public records. The county shall make reasonable efforts to provide public records contained within an electronically stored data system to any person complying with the requirements of this section. For purposes of this section, REASONABLE EFFORTS shall be determined in the discretion of the office holder, department or division of the county in which the records are kept.
(F) Form of verification. The verification provided for in division (C) above shall be in the following form.
VERIFICATION OF NO COMMERCIAL PURPOSE
To: ______________________________________ (Requesting Party)
______________________________________ (Address)
______________________________________
From: ______________________________________ (County Office)
______________________________________ (Name)
______________________________________ (Title)
This office acknowledges receipt of your request pursuant to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, I.C. 5-14-3 et seq., for certain records to be provided in an electronic format. We have determined your request may be for commercial purposes. Before responding to your request, please date and sign the form below and submit to the office listed above.
I, __________________________________, representing ___________________________________, the requesting party, do hereby swear and affirm that the information requested and to be provided to me shall not be sold, advertised, or solicited for purposes of purchasing merchandise, goods or services by any party, nor will the information be sold, loaned, given away or otherwise delivered in any manner to any other person for these purposes. I furthermore acknowledge that any breach of this verification may result in the requesting party being prohibited from any additional or future records requests from Warrick County under Indiana law.
Signed: ______________________________________
Printed: ______________________________________
Dated: ______________________________________
(BC Ord. 2014-11, passed 4-14-14)
The following policy is hereby implemented with respect to requests by covered individuals to restrict disclosure pursuant to I.C. 36-1-8.5.
(A) A request under I.C. 36-1-8.5 must be made in writing. The written request must include the following:
(1) The individual’s full name;
(2) The individual’s full address(es);
(3) A statement that the individual is either a judge, law enforcement officer, or domestic violence victim as defined under I.C. 36-1-8.5; and
(4) A statement that the individual is requesting pursuant to I.C. 36-1-8.5 that public access to the individual’s home address(es) be restricted.
(B) Only written requests by judges, law enforcement officers, and victims of domestic violence as are defined in I.C. 36-1-8.5 shall be approved for restricted disclosure. The individual must provide verification that the individual is covered under I.C. 36-1-8.5 if requested by the County Administrator.
(C) The County Administrator shall prescribe a form to be filled out and signed by any requesting party, identifying those public access restrictions available and being requested. Any county office or department receiving an individual’s request for public access restrictions shall refer them to the County Administrator. All requests must be processed through the County Administrator’s office.
(D) Upon receipt of a written request, the County Administrator shall take all reasonably necessary steps to ensure the following steps are completed and the access is restricted as required under I.C. 36-1-8.5:
(1) The County Administrator shall take all reasonable steps necessary to restrict access on the county’s GIS mapping website;
(2) The County Administrator shall contact the Treasurer’s office, who shall take all reasonable steps necessary to restrict access on the Treasurer’
(3) The County Administrator shall contact the Assessor’s office, who shall take all reasonable steps necessary to restrict access on the Assessor’s “Public Property Data Base Web Site” as required by I.C. 36-1-8.5;
(4) The County Administrator shall contact the Recorder’s office, who shall take all reasonable steps necessary to restrict access on the Recorder’s “Public Property Data Base Web Site” as required by I.C. 36-1-8.5, including but not limited to the “Free Name Search”; and
(5) The County Administrator shall take any and all other reasonable and additional steps necessary to comply with the statute.
(E) This policy does not apply to searches performed on county-owned and operated public workstations located in county offices and departments that are directly connected to the applicable server and not searching via the internet.
(F) In the event the County Recorder, County Treasurer, County Auditor, or County Assessor has a reasonable belief that a covered person is no longer living at an address that receives restricted access, then in that event the County Administrator shall notify the covered person of its reasonable belief. The notification shall be made by telephone call, email, and regular mail. In the event the covered person fails to respond within 30 days of the County Administrator’s notification, then the property listed in the covered person’s request shall be removed from the restricted disclosures.
(G) All covered persons whose home address is restricted from disclosure shall notify the County Auditor of a change of home address, termination from employment, or any change of circumstances that may disqualify them from being a covered person under I.C. 36-1-8.5-2.
(BC Res. 2015-04, passed 1-12-15; Am. BC Res. 2016-06, passed 6-3-16)
(A) The acceptable minimum level of internal control standards and procedures for internal control systems as established by I.C. 5-11-1-27(e), and as may be amended from time to time, are hereby adopted and shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. The standards shall include control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring to promote county accountability and transparency. All departments and officers shall establish and enforce procedures in compliance with the Indiana State Board of Accounts internal control standards.
(B) All personnel, as defined by I.C. 5-11-1-27, shall participate in the required training as developed by the Indiana State Board of Accounts.
(BC Ord. 2016-08, passed 5-9-16)
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