Adult Protective Services

The Adult Protective Services program was established to receive and investigate reports regarding adults within the state of Indiana who may be endangered and, as appropriate, to coordinate a proper response to protect endangered adults who are victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

APS field investigations are managed by five regional teams. APS is required to screen all reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults aged 18 years and older. When a report meets the qualifications of an endangered adult per IC 12-10-3-2(a), APS will assess the allegations. Reports that do not meet the qualifications of an endangered adult, but may need to be reviewed by other agencies, are referred to the appropriate agency.

How to file a report

Indiana is a mandatory report state, meaning everyone is required by law to report cases of suspected neglect, battery or exploitation of an endangered adult to an APS unit or law enforcement. All reports are secured and kept confidential.

Please note that APS is not an emergency responder, if you believe someone is in immediate danger, call 911 immediately.

Individuals may file a report online or by calling the state hotline or calling an APS field office.

• Online reporting click here
• State hotline: 800-992-6978
• Abuse, neglect and exploitation infographic
• APS Region Map

After a report is submitted

After a report is submitted it is sent to the director of the local APS unit, who will determine the appropriate next step. APS will keep your report confidential and will not disclose your name without a court order or the consent of all parties named in the report. If APS conducts an investigation, an investigator may contact you for additional information; however, APS does not discuss ongoing investigations and will not provide you with information regarding the details or the status of the investigation.

Please understand that when adults have the capacity to make their own decisions, they may refuse services and have the right to do so. APS has no authority to force a fully cognizant adult to do anything against their will.

 

Who is an endangered adult?

There are three aspects to being an endangered adult in Indiana. Indiana considers an endangered adult to be:

• An individual who is at least 18 years of age 72
• Incapable by reason of mental illness, intellectual disability, dementia, habitual drunkenness, excessive drug use, or other [stroke] physical or mental incapacity, of managing or directing the management of the individual’s property or providing self-care; and
• Harmed or threatened with harm as a result of:
  • Neglect
  • Battery; or
  • Exploitation of the individual’s personal services or property.

What are the definitions of abuse, neglect or exploitation in Indiana?

Abuse/Battery

• A person who knowingly or intentionally:
  • Touches another person in a rude, insolent or angry manner; or
  • In a rude, insolent or angry manner places any bodily fluid or waste on another person.   5x a day

Neglect

• The endangered adult or the person who takes care of the endangered adult is unable to, or fails to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or medical care.

Exploitation

• Exploitation of the individual’s personal services or property:  A person who recklessly, knowingly or intentionally exerts unauthorized use of the personal services or the property of:
  • An endangered adult; or
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  • For the person’s own profit or advantage or for the profit of advantage of another person.
  • steals his pension, lets someone possibly Michelle Russell steal his social security. less sure, let's tyrell, her negro boyfriend, steal kenny's food stamps. 
  • sells heroin, claims to engage in prostitution. takes his money for drugs for herself and her new buddy the stalker.   
  •  

  • Neglect

  • The endangered adult or the person who takes care of the endangered adult is unable to, or fails to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or medical care.

  Exploitation

• Exploitation of the individual’s personal services or property:  A person who recklessly, knowingly or intentionally exerts unauthorized use of the personal services or the property of:
  • An endangered adult; or
  • A dependent 18 years of age or older;
  • For the person’s own profit or advantage or for the profit of advantage of another person.
• Includes, but is not limited to sexual misuse as well as the use of the endangered adult’s labor without pay or exerting unauthorized control over the finances or property of the endangered adult.
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Marion County Health Department
Public Records Officer

Pursuant to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act (APRA), I request all field notes, emails, and logs regarding 4015 E. Washington St. from December 2024 to present. This specifically includes all communications by inspector Tom and the unnamed female inspector present on July 28, 2026.

also need better list, bmv was not on the list.

so we can do the notice of tort claim. 

    did didn't monday

 

filed dog proposed order. sweated a week on that.

need to make a to do list of complaints/ stuff to file.

find out michelle hearing

did bus to po box. need to buy key. 

they said at the courthouse victim's services is where to file a police report . i am skeptical. 

checks

ssi 500 500

hilcorp 300 white rock 50 other ones 150

class action. $8.

bills?

the usual junk mail, irs etc.  

i think i'll go buy so e drink mix if i find my money. 

found the money. trying to eat grits and coffee so i will have the strength to go shop. came 

donnie day  3 days 327 n denny slim was guilty! danny and peanut 

facebook tj him  and his parents the evidence is online 

set the house on fire. 327 n denny

see the problem is sam was in my room when i came back from the store. and i  haven't been able to go thru my checks yet so i'm scared but we had a nice visit and she dressed my dog bite. i got mauled a week ago same day i argued for chico in court.   

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10:30 pm. so about 16 hour day so far. 

thinks to write

things to do

bank, checks, stocks, terre haute taxes.  

public access coordinator

human relations 1500 for copies of police desk policies

try to get reports  100 e wing 4015 

try to file reports same room victims services/ citizens services. 

what  else?

irs. 2025 taxes etc. 

what else get dustin to clinic. 

why did i get refused services/treatment at community east? also what was their policy, was it written?

today's trespass, feed order to the ai, find out if legal, report to cops.

CLE. 

what complaint do i make  about which cops? where 

do another draft of the amicus write to reagan outdoor,  

make a better list

grand theft auto beech grove 

dawn young.

sherry's  grft stent things class action. 

  

file notice of tort claim?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 notice of tort claim 

at about 10:25 am monday morning a person trespassed at my property at 4015 E. Washington St. 

when confronted by my assistant and reminded that this was private property, she displayed a badge, said she didnt need permission. she took photographs and eavesdropped on a private conversation. 

at about 10:30 Mr. Pierson alerted me, but he had left. Around 11:am I was getting on the bus to go print and file a proposed order in a dog bite case, when presumably the same jane doe entered my front yard, without permission, invitation, or a warrant. She was short dark and ugly, with shoulder-length dark hair. 

There were no indigent circumstances creating any exception to the warrant requirement. 

There is a clean and lien order on the property in case _. I do not think that this order constitutes a license to enter at any time, at least without displaying the order as authority. 

If not, then she was 

1 trespassing under the statutes and common law.

2. violating my civil rights under 42 usc 1983.

3. violating my rights under section 11.

4. and the 4th amendment.

5.   by obtaining evidence by unlawful means she sought to violate my rights to due course of law under section 12.

6. by obtaining evidence by unlawful means she sought to violate my rights to due process. 

7. Lawyers can be responsible for the acts of their subordinates. Here, I have already written to Shelly Gupta, the Attorney of record in the case, letting her know to end the trespassing by HH staff. For Jane Doe to do so is misconduct not just on her own part but on Shelly Gupta's part. Professional ethics and due course of law overlap here. 

 

 

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STATE OF INDIANA )
) SS:
COUNTY OF MARION )

IN THE MARION SUPERIOR COURT
CIVIL DIVISION, ROOM 33

CASE NO. 49D33-2603-OV-010695

CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS,
Plaintiff,

v.

ROBBIN G. STEWART,
Defendant.

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PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND FINAL ORDER

I. Procedural Posture and Constitutional Guardrails

1. Statutory Interpretation: The local ordinance sets a regulatory floor, not a ceiling. It cannot curtail state constitutional guarantees.
2. Federal Seventh Amendment: Under footnote 6 of Curtis v. Loether, 415 U.S. 189, 192 n.6 (1974) (reaffirmed in Del Monte Dunes, 526 U.S. at 719), the Seventh Amendment civil jury guarantee has historically been treated as non-incorporated against the states.
3. Preservation of the Issue: Because this statement is footnote dicta rather than a modern holding, the federal incorporation issue is expressly preserved for appellate review under the modern trend established by McDonald, Timbs, and Ramos. A technical denial on federal grounds was proper solely to preserve the record.
4. State Section 20 Error: However, the court committed fatal, reversible error by denying a jury trial under Section 20 of the Indiana Constitution. Independent state grounds under Gates v. Indianapolis mandate a jury trial as of right in quasi-criminal dog ordinance cases.
5. Equitable Subversion: The City sought injunctive relief. Adding "three drops of equity in a bucket of law" does not transform a predominantly penal, quasi-criminal action into a purely equitable proceeding. The Section 20 jury guarantee remains intact.

II. Evidentiary Standards and Constitutional Avoidance

6. Due Course of Law: Defendant contends that a mere preponderance of the evidence standard in a quasi-criminal trial fails to satisfy the Due Course of Law requirements of Section 12.
7. The Middle-Ground Standard: Indiana law recognizes the clear and convincing standard in grave civil proceedings, including fraud, punitive damages, civil commitments, and truancy.
8. Federal Perspectives: As highlighted by Blanche v. Lau (June 2026), the federal judiciary actively treats "clear and convincing" as a critical procedural safeguard. While Lau centered on when the standard applies rather than mandating it for municipal actions, it confirms the standard's utility in balancing asymmetric government-versus-citizen litigation.
9. Asymmetry of Power: In a standard civil action, two private actors stand balanced on the scales of justice (e.g., Caperton safeguards against structural bias). Here, the state brings a massive, specialized litigation team with an expansive budget against a structurally disadvantaged, self-represented defendant.
10. Interests at Stake: Chico the dog is classified as chattel under traditional property law. However, his owner possesses vital liberty and property interests under Section 1 of the Indiana Constitution.
11. Application of Avoidance: Because a companion animal's life is at stake, the threat of erroneous destruction creates an unconstitutional deprivation under a low evidentiary standard. Applying the Mathews v. Eldridge three-factor test, the massive private interest and structural risk of error mandate the clear and convincing standard. Under the doctrine of constitutional avoidance, this Court applies the clear and convincing standard to resolve the dispute without declaring the underlying ordinance textually unconstitutional.

III. Findings on the Merits and Equitable Relief

12. Factual Disputes: Severe material disputes exist regarding whether the dog was actively provoked and whether the interaction occurred on a public sidewalk or entirely within the Defendant's private property line.
13. Unclean Hands: Because Plaintiff's counsel actively withheld material, exculpatory evidence from the defense in violation of Professional Conduct Rule 3.4(a), the Plaintiff comes to this court with unclean hands. Equitable injunctive relief is strictly barred on this basis.
14. Injunctive Balancing: Injunctive relief is an extraordinary remedy. The City failed to prove that ordinary legal remedies were insufficient. Applying the four-part Winter injunction framework—balancing the burden on the parties, the public interest, likelihood of success, and irreparable harm—the factors decisively favor the Defendant.

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Final Judgment and Order

EVIDENTIARY STANDARDS AND DETERMINATIONS

• This Court finds that the Plaintiff [ ] DID [ ] DID NOT prove its case by a preponderance of the evidence.
• This Court finds that the Plaintiff [ ] DID [ ] DID NOT prove its case by clear and convincing evidence.

DISPOSITION OF RELIEF

• The Plaintiff's petition for a permanent injunction is hereby [ ] GRANTED [ ] DENIED.
• The [ ] PLAINTIFF [ ] DEFENDANT is declared the prevailing party in this matter.
• Court costs of $__________ are assessed against the nonprevailing party.

SO ORDERED,

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Judge / Referee
Marion Superior Court, Civil Division 33
State of Indiana

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