County report card · Florida
Hamilton County, Florida
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 14,334
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Schneider Geospatial
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationAvailable
Portal audited: hamiltonclerk.com/official-record-search/, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=817&LayerID=14544&PageTypeID=2&PageID=6409, www.hamiltoncountytaxcollector.com/Property/SearchSelect
Doing well
- A notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Three low-cost protections that residents in other counties have found valuable:
1. Adding robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Including a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed (per the AZ, FL, HI, IL, UT model)
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.