County report card · Michigan
Alger County, Michigan
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 8,695
- Portal
- 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: algercounty.gov/courts/circuit-court/, www.algercounty.gov/departments/online_property_records_access.php, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.algercounty.gov/departments/county_treasurer/index.php, www.algercounty.gov/departments/equalization_department/index.php
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.