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- The state of Iowa is providing free onine access to court records in all of its 99 counties.
- Iowa Courts Online free services offers Internet access to the following:
- Current court records
- Historical data: 4 to 10 years (depending on County)
- Statewide index search
- Public access records
- Individual case financial information
- Document events filing
- Case disposition information
- Appellate case information
- Probate records
- Specific information that is currently available for free includes:
- Trial Court case summary and disposition
- Long titles
- Filings
- Charges
- Charge disposition & financial summary
- Appellate case information
- While documents are not available in full text, online searches will still be valuable in narrowning down information on what documents are available. Users can also sign up for e-mail notification regarding cases they are following.
- Additional information will be available in the future for a fee. That information includes:
- Trial Court advanced searches
- Schedule searches
- Parties
- Property
- Judgments & liens
- Exhibits
- Financial detail
- Bonds
- Service returns
- Traffic detail
- Federal Computer Week reports that the subscription fee for this expanded information will be $25.00 per month.
