County report card · Michigan
Oceana County, Michigan
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 27,014
- Portal
- 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: oceana.mi.publicsearch.us/, bsaonline.com/?uid=2042&sitetransition=true, oceana.mi.us/government/departments/treasurer/, app.fetchgis.com/?currentMap=oceana&switchingMaps=false¢erLng=-86.28459472656199¢erLat=43.64459732777027&mapZoom=10&pageSize=letter&pageOrientation=landscape&pageTitle=Oceana County GIS&subTitle=&northArrow=1&rptPIN=0&rptLayer=&rptMap=1&rptPic=1&rptTax=1&activeControl=layerControls&activeLayers=undefined&partialLayerGroups=undefined&opacity64=N4Ig7gpgLgNghgOwCYGcAycCeEBOIBcArAAwC+QA&buff64=undefined&printLegendLayers=, oceana.mi.us/departments/county-clerk/elections/upcoming-election-information/
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.