County report card · Indiana
Porter County, Indiana
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 175,860
- 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 useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.portercountyin.gov/1897/Record-Searches, engage.xsoftinc.com/porter/, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/, lowtaxinfo.com/portercounty/#/SearchView, porter-county-open-data-portercogov.hub.arcgis.com/apps/porter-county-data-map/explore
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Building on the protections already in place, you might consider a property-owner notification system (like the ones AZ, FL, HI, IL, and UT have implemented) and a formal data-governance policy that addresses commercial data aggregators.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.