County report card · Illinois
Montgomery County, Illinois
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 27,615
- 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: beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppId=503&LayerId=7586&PageTypeId=2&PageID=3799, tapestry.fidlar.com, montgomerycountyil.gov/county-clerk-recorder/recording/#1689204155029-9505ee61-3b76, montgomeryil.devnetwedge.com/
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.