County report card · Michigan
Sanilac County, Michigan
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 40,293
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — blocks bots
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: app.fetchgis.com/?currentMap=sanilac&switchingMaps=false¢erLng=-82.76210327148112¢erLat=43.41060956040612&mapZoom=10&pageSize=letter&pageOrientation=landscape&pageTitle=Sanilac%20County%20GIS&subTitle=&northArrow=1&rptPIN=0&rptLayer=&rptMap=1&rptPic=1&rptTax=1&activeControl=layerControls&activeLayers=undefined&partialLayerGroups=undefined&opacity64=&printLegendLayers=, www.sanilaccounty.gov/departments/county_clerk/index.php, www.sanilaccounty.gov/departments/county_clerk/election_information/index.php, www.sanilaccounty.gov/departments/county_clerk/apportionment.php, www.sanilaccounty.gov/departments/county_clerk/circuit_court_e-file_and_fees.php, www.sanilaccounty.net/PublicPages/Entity.aspx?ID=202, rod.sanilaccounty.net/landweb.dll/$/
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.