County report card · Indiana
Starke County, Indiana
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 23,463
- 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 notificationUnknown
Portal audited: thinkopengis.starke.in.wthtechnology.com/, starke.in.gov/annex-1/recorder/, tapestry.fidlar.com, lowtaxinfo.com/starkecounty, starkein.wthgis.com/, www.in.gov/dlgf/understanding-your-tax-bill/assessed-value-search/
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.