County report card · Illinois
Whiteside County, Illinois
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 54,657
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar Technologies
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: www.whiteside.org/departments/recorder.html, www.whitesidecountyassessor.com/propertysearch/default.html, tapestry.fidlar.com, whitesideil.devnetwedge.com/, whiteside.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4bc435fba29c4b1ba47209a07c37753b
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.