County report card · New York
Sullivan County, New York
County portal uses Cloudflare bot detection which deters automated access but may be bypassed by determined actors
- Population
- 80,450
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Schneider Geospatial
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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: secure.sullivanny.us/IMO/index.aspx, searchiqs.com/nysul, sullconygiso.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html, taxlookup.net/index.aspx, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1330&LayerID=45411&PageTypeID=2&PageID=17808
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Three low-cost steps that have worked in other counties to close gaps like this one:
1. Adding clear robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.