County report card · Illinois
Peoria County, Illinois
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 179,630
- 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 notificationAvailable
Portal audited: recorder.peoriacounty.gov/recorder/web/splash.jsp, www.peoriacounty.org/502/Supervisor-of-Assessments, www.co.peoria.il.us/display.php?section=assessmentSupervisor&page=township, propertytax.peoriacounty.gov/, gis.peoriacounty.gov/PeoriaCountyGIS/
Doing well
- A notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
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.