County report card · Pennsylvania
Forest County, Pennsylvania
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 6,601
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.forest.pa.us/departments/assessment_tax_claim.php, www.co.forest.pa.us/departments/prothonotary.php, www.co.forest.pa.us/departments/treasurer.php, www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2edd963be9c14c888dbcaeabac123e8d
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
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.