County report card · West Virginia
Upshur County, West Virginia
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 23,650
- 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: inquiry.upshurcounty.org/, agdonline.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8448aae4d3ab4c56a979eb659dca6b30, digitalcourthouse.com/, upshur.softwaresystems.com/index.html, www.mapwv.gov/parcel/, digitalcourthouse.com/map/
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.