County report card · Minnesota
Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 70,700
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Schneider Geospatial
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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: beacon.schneidercorp.com/?site=BlueEarthCountyMN, www.blueearthcountymn.gov/index.aspx?nid=332, tapestry.fidlar.com, publicaccess.blueearthcountymn.gov/Search/Disclaimer.aspx?FromUrl=../search/commonsearch.aspx?mode=realprop, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=387&LayerID=5678&PageTypeID=2&PageID=3065&KeyValue=R140534328001
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
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.