County report card · Nebraska
Kearney County, Nebraska
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 6,749
- 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.txtNot checked
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengereCAPTCHA
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: kearney.gisworkshop.com/, kearneycounty.ne.gov/county-clerk/, kearneycounty.ne.gov, www.nebraskadeedsonline.us/search.aspx?county=52, nebraskataxesonline.us/search.aspx?county=Kearney, kearney.gworks.com/
Doing well
- Technical barriers (recaptcha) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.