County report card · Oregon
Lane County, Oregon
No restrictions on automated access found in robots.txt or Terms of Use
- Population
- 382,396
- 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 useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=3719733, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=3720150, www.lanecounty.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=4182759, www.courts.oregon.gov/courts/lane/Pages/default.aspx, www.lanecountyor.gov/residents/vital_records, www.lanecountyor.gov/business/property___buildings, www.lanecountyor.gov/government/county_departments/assessment___taxation, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=3719796, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=4278680, www.lanecountyor.gov/how_do_i/apply/title_III, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=4081138, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=4081117, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=5490851, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=4081135, www.lanecountyor.gov/cms/one.aspx?pageId=4116371
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
- 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.