County report card · Pennsylvania
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Vendor (Simplifile) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 45,935
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Simplifile
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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.mifflincountypa.gov/assessment, www.mifflincountypa.gov/regrec/recorder-of-deeds, gisportal.co.mifflin.pa.us/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e7546d3a6ba0488ebef86b2a95df7a77
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
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.