County report card · Wisconsin
Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 30,801
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar Technologies
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtNot checked
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/court___legal_departments/circuit_court/index.php, co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/service_departments/county_clerk/index.php, co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/administrative_departments/land_records/index.php, co.trempealeau.wi.us/community/property_search.php, co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/service_departments/county_clerk/elections.php, co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/service_departments/county_clerk/voting_information.php, co.trempealeau.wi.us/departments/court___legal_departments/register_of_deeds/online_real_estate_search.php, tapestry.fidlar.com, maps.sco.wisc.edu/Parcels/
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- 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.