County report card · Missouri
St. Louis County, Missouri
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 992,929
- 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: stlouis-mo.gov/data/address-search/index.cfm, tapestry.fidlar.com, mostlouiscity.fidlar.com/MOStLouis/DirectSearch/#!/search, www.stlouis-mo.gov/collector/index.cfm, stlcin.missouri.org/citydata/newdesign/index.cfm
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.