County report card · Wisconsin
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 44,276
- Portal
- Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Schneider Geospatial
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.douglascountywi.gov/869/Land-Records, www.douglascountywi.gov/322/Land-Records, www.douglascountywi.org/index.aspx?nid=382, douglascountywi.org/158/Payment-of-Real-Estate-Taxes, www.douglascountywi.gov/406/GIS-Mapping, 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
- 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.