County report card · Michigan
Eaton County, Michigan
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 109,494
- Portal
- Assessor
- Portal vendor
- Kofile / Granicus
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: www.eatoncounty.org, countyfusion3.kofiletech.us/countyweb/login.do?countyname=Eaton, www.deltami.gov/, bsaonline.com/?uid=418, ecgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c0d29949e5ae42ebb2fa5e06149cb1e5
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
Building on the protections already in place, you might consider a property-owner notification system (like the ones AZ, FL, HI, IL, and UT have implemented) and a formal data-governance policy that addresses commercial data aggregators.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.