County report card · Wisconsin
Brown County, Wisconsin
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 273,909
- 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.browncountywi.gov/government/forms-and-documents/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/circuit-court/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/clerk-of-circuit-court/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/county-clerk/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/land-water-conservation/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/planning-and-land-services/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/planning-and-land-services/property-listing/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/register-in-probate/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/register-of-deeds/general-information/, www.browncountywi.gov/departments/planning-and-land-services/zoning/, bclrpp.browncountywi.gov/login, prod-landrecords.browncountywi.gov/CustomError.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/GCSWebPortal/Search.aspx, www.co.brown.wi.us/departments/?department=e7fb85d94ba9, bclrpp.browncountywi.gov/Login, prod-landrecords.browncountywi.gov/GCSWebPortal/Search.aspx, arcg.is/15LS9P, tapestry.fidlar.com, maps.sco.wisc.edu/Parcels/
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.