County report card · Louisiana
Ascension County, Louisiana
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 133,534
- 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 useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: eclerksla.com/home, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1188&LayerID=35843&PageTypeID=2&PageID=13570, ascensionparish.net/index.php/departments/m-z/technology/103-technology/gis-items/128-gis-unit, snstaxpayments.com/ascension?terms=yes, www.latax.la.gov/#taxroll
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.