County report card · Wisconsin
Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 18,835
- 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: tas.sawyercountygov.org/Access/master.asp, www.sawyercounty.gov/205/Land-Record-Portal, www.sawyercountygov.org/216/Register-of-Deeds, www.sawyercountygov.org/232/Taxes-Assessment-Portal, tapestry.fidlar.com, sawyercowi.wgxtreme.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.