County report card · Mississippi
Rankin County, Mississippi
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 160,573
- 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 — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.rankincounty.org/eGov/apps/document/center.egov?view=item;id=207, HTTPS://WWW2.RANKINCOUNTY.ORG/DUPROCESSWEBINQUIRY, www.deltacomputersystems.com/ms/ms61/plinkquerym.html, gis.cmpdd.org/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2a84c1decebc4733b91fb86c928b402a
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.