County report card · Michigan
Genesee County, Michigan
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 402,279
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — blocks bots
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.geneseecountymi.gov/government/non-discrimination_documents.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/departments/county_clerk/index.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/courts_and_law_enforcement/index.php, 7thcircuitcourt.com/, www.67thdc.com/, www.geneseecountymi.gov/courts_and_law_enforcement/community_corrections.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/courts_and_law_enforcement/emergency_management_and_homeland_security/index.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/courts_and_law_enforcement/friend_of_the_court/indexfaq.php, gcprobatecourt.com/, www.geneseecountymi.gov/courts_and_law_enforcement/prosecutor/index.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/courts_and_law_enforcement/office_of_the_public_defender/index.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/community/non-discrimination_documents.php, www.geneseecountymi.gov/departments/register_of_deeds/online_records_search.php, app.fetchgis.com/genesee, www.geneseecountymi.gov/departments/equalization/municipality_information.php, bsaonline.com/OnlinePayment/OnlinePaymentSearch?PaymentApplicationType=5&uid=304, tapestry.fidlar.com
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.