County report card · Michigan
Tuscola County, Michigan
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 52,757
- Portal
- Assessor
- 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.tuscolacounty.org, www.tuscolacounty.org/equalization/, countyfusion2.govos.com/countyweb/login.do?countyname=TuscolaMI, app.fetchgis.com/?currentMap=tuscola&switchingMaps=false¢erLng=-83.39793701171713¢erLat=43.51327763247104&mapZoom=10&pageSize=letter&pageOrientation=landscape&pageTitle=Tuscola%20County%20GIS&subTitle=&northArrow=1&rptPIN=0&rptLayer=&rptMap=1&rptPic=1&rptTax=1&activeControl=layerControls&activeLayers=undefined&partialLayerGroups=undefined&opacity64=&printLegendLayers=
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.