County report card · Michigan
Muskegon County, Michigan
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 177,428
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Tyler Technologies
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: co.muskegon.mi.us/1116/Courts, co.muskegon.mi.us/formcenter, co.muskegon.mi.us/561/Juror-Hotline, co.muskegon.mi.us/428/Friend-of-the-Court, co.muskegon.mi.us/407/County-Clerk, co.muskegon.mi.us/848/Register-of-Deeds, www.co.muskegon.mi.us/deeds/record_search.htm, www.co.muskegon.mi.us/treasurer/prd.htm, maps.muskegoncountygis.com/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4741564b03aa46de80769afacae95f2c, bsaonline.com/?uid=329&sitetransition=true
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.