County report card · Louisiana
Orleans County, Louisiana
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 362,701
- 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: www.orleanscivilclerk.com/onlinerecords.html, nolaassessor.com/property-search/, www.latax.la.gov/#taxroll, property.nola.gov/, services.nola.gov/service.aspx?load=treasury&Type=1
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.