County report card · Wisconsin
Green Lake County, Wisconsin
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 19,370
- 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 challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: greenlake.transcendenttech.com/LandRecords/PropertyListing/RealEstateTaxParcel#/Search, www.greenlakecountywi.gov/departments/county-clerk/, greenlakecowi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=7dcbb6675fc1466c93033866bc08da75, tapestry.fidlar.com, maps.sco.wisc.edu/Parcels/, www.greenlakecountywi.gov/departments/register-of-deeds-online-services/, www.greenlakecountywi.gov/departments/treasurer/
Doing well
- Technical barriers (access_denied) that deter casual bulk access
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.