County report card · Georgia
Cherokee County, Georgia
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 293,513
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: property.spatialest.com/ga/cherokee/#/, deeds.cherokeega.com/LandmarkWeb, cherokeecountyga.governmentwindow.com/captcha.html?requested_page=%2Ftax.html, www.cherokeega.com/GIS/, www.woodstockga.gov/your_government/departments/finance_department/property_tax.php, www.hollyspringsga.us/departments/finance/taxes.php
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
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.