County report card · Michigan
Jackson County, Michigan
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 160,233
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- 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 useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.mijackson.org/2963/Courts-Judicial-Jury, www.mijackson.org/2973/Payments-Taxes, www.mijackson.org/3076/County-Clerk, www.mijackson.org/deeds, bsaonline.com/OnlinePayment/OnlinePaymentSearch?PaymentApplicationType=5&uid=388, gis.mijackson.org/taxviewer/, bsaonline.com/?uid=309, countyfusion3.kofiletech.us/countyweb/login.do?countyname=Jackson, bsaonline.com/?uid=388
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
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.