County report card · Indiana
Jay County, Indiana
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 20,164
- 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: in-jay-county.governmax.com/svc/agency/in-jay-county/in-jay_homepage2017.asp?sid=A3F8726F369F447ABBC3103E61FC671C, jaycounty.net/plugins/content/content.php?content.34, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/, jayin.elevatemaps.io/#extent=594073.4605566981,427124.6758344759,1941016.1983112688,1842122.9691446023,2244, in-jay-county.governmax.com/svc/collectmax/search_collect.asp?l_nm=owner&site=collectsearch&sid=04A689F3B50A44718CBA37C72021062D
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.