County report card · Oregon
Josephine County, Oregon
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 88,276
- 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 challengereCAPTCHA
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: alt.co.josephine.or.us/DigitalResearchRoom/, jcpa.josephinecounty.gov/Home, www.co.josephine.or.us/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=149, ormap.net/, joco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6b4f29b1fe824d8d851088a44936739e
Doing well
- Technical barriers (recaptcha) that deter casual bulk access
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.