County report card · Indiana
Dearborn County, Indiana
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 51,435
- 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 notificationUnknown
Portal audited: beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=267&LayerID=3292&PageTypeID=2&PageID=1830, www.dearborncounty.org/department/index.php?structureid=28, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/, treasurer.dearborncounty15.us/cgi.exe?PAGEID=0004&CALL_PROGRAM=C009LIST
Doing well
- 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.