County report card · Michigan
Livingston County, Michigan
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 196,976
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.livgov.com/treasurer, livingstonlive.livgov.com/Deeds/, livgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f3cd4da87c034c3eb8ba892da94c47f6, livingstonlive.livgov.com/Property/, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.livingstoncountyny.gov/232/Real-Property-Tax-Services, www.livingstoncountyny.gov/158/County-Clerk-DMV
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.