County report card · Nebraska
Phelps County, Nebraska
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 9,042
- 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.txtNot checked
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengereCAPTCHA
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: phelps.gworks.com/, www.nebraskataxesonline.us/taxcollpage1.aspx?county=Phelps, www.nebraskadeedsonline.us/search.aspx?county=37
Doing well
- Technical barriers (recaptcha) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
No gaps confirmed. Some checks could not be completed for this portal, so there may be room the audit could not see.
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.