County report card · Michigan
Saginaw County, Michigan
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 187,714
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar Technologies
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.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/9-1-1-administration/emergency-notification-registration/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/departments/county-clerk/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/departments/register-of-deeds/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/10th-circuit-court/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/10th-circuit-juvenile-family-court/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/70th-district-court/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/business-court/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/community-corrections/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/district-court-probation/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/friend-of-the-court/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/personal-protection-orders/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/probate-court/, www.saginawcountymi.gov/courts-public-safety/courts/recovery-court/, secure.saginawcounty.com/EqualizationSearch/, www.saginawcounty.com/departments/register-of-deeds/, www.sagagis.org/, tapestry.fidlar.com
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
Three low-cost protections that residents in other counties have found valuable:
1. Adding robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Including a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed (per the AZ, FL, HI, IL, UT model)
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.