County report card · North Carolina
Forsyth County, North Carolina
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 398,143
- Portal
- Assessor
- 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.co.forsyth.nc.us/tax/default.aspx, www.co.forsyth.nc.us/rod/online_lookup.aspx, www.co.forsyth.nc.us/Tax/taxbill.aspx, mapf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=53620a0b6458437aa82bd5e91d8cc47b
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.