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2025 Indiana State Fair Unaccompanied Minor Policy Updated

August 5, 2025 by Naptown Buzz

On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, the Indiana State Fair updated its Unaccompanied Minor Policy.

Unaccompanied Minor Policy (Updated 8/5/2025)

Fairgoers under the age of eighteen (18) must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or chaperone (age 25+) to enter the Indiana State Fair starting at 6 PM daily, Tuesday – Thursday, and 4 PM daily Friday – Sunday.

  • Each adult may chaperone up to four (4) individuals and must remain at the Fairgrounds while the minors they are chaperoning are still present.
  • Any minors under the age of 18 not accompanied by an adult will not be admitted.
  • Any person entering may be asked to show a valid driver’s license, state identification card, or other government-issued ID.
  • This does not apply to organized and ticketed group outings or to those participating in competitions where existing chaperone procedures are already in place.

Youth Gone Wild (Allegedly)

Why the sudden change mid-Fair?

In this day and age of viral videos and AI, plus sue-happy people, one is right to question this, so you may not have heard about it on the local media outlets. But allegedly, on Saturday, some youths were fighting on the Midway.

We weren’t there on Saturday and did not witness it firsthand, so until we hear otherwise, we cannot confirm either way.

You can follow the threads below to get an overview of what we’re talking about.

I see the Indiana State Fair is going to be lovely this year. pic.twitter.com/Mckf87vBEn

— indy reporter (@Indy_reporter_) August 3, 2025

https://t.co/fADJnkWzMV pic.twitter.com/EifVyuGFcH

— indy reporter (@Indy_reporter_) August 4, 2025

Someone sent this over a little bit ago of another fight that happened at the Indiana State Fair

-We aren't sure when this happened since the fair is closed today.
-It appears to have happened near the communications building.
-Where are the police?https://t.co/Se868GB00X pic.twitter.com/rH064fSY3D

— indy reporter (@Indy_reporter_) August 4, 2025

what do you ya'll think? Picture on the right was taken a few hours ago.

Fair is closed today so our guy took some pictures from the Monon Trail
LOTS of trailers are blocking the view. pic.twitter.com/a8kwbS8aCG

— indy reporter (@Indy_reporter_) August 5, 2025

The video's author resides in Indianapolis. Additionally, Saturday nights have long been an issue at the state fair, with incidents of violence involving teenagers and young adults. Indy TenPoint was specifically requested to patrol this area on Saturday in 2022 and 2023 to help…

— Rev Dr Charles Harrison (@charlesharriso5) August 4, 2025

And I was hoping to have the State Fair response before I just shared that.

But they just told us they will be issuing a statement shortly.

They say the video from Saturday daytime is from our state fair this year. The second video is not a fight from our state fair this year. https://t.co/MBBQZmOrBi

— Angela Ganote (@angelaganote) August 4, 2025

The Verdict

As we’ve said, we weren’t there. And we’ll also say that a security policy update of any kind mid-Fair is not a normal occurrence. We’ve covered the Indiana State Fair for YEARS and don’t recall this.

Connecting the dots, it sounds like this was indeed at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday. Fox 59’s Angela Ganote stated such and said that there’s supposed to be an update from the Fair.

While the kids need to behave, and fighting and chasing each other around is unacceptable, by no means will this keep us away from the Fair this year. We spent Sunday at the Fair and had no issues at all, and can confirm that there was an ample supply of police officers on hand patrolling.

Filed Under: Community, Indiana State Fair, Indiana State Fairgrounds Tagged With: 2025 Indiana State Fair, Indiana State Fair

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