County report card · Wisconsin
Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 81,513
- 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 useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: manitowoccountywi.gov/real-estate-search/, www.manitowoc.org/138/Assessor, manitowoccountywi.gov/departments/county-clerk/, rod.co.manitowoc.wi.us/landweb.dll/$/, manitowocmaps.info/gisviewer/, 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.