County report card · Kansas
Lyon County, Kansas
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 32,520
- Portal
- Assessor
- 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/?site=LyonCountyKS, lyoncounty.org/index/?page_id=430, ks1058.cichosting.com/ttp/tax/Search/search_tax.aspx, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.kansasgis.org/orka/intro.cfm?countyName=Lyon
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.