County report card · Wyoming
Sheridan County, Wyoming
Vendor (Simplifile) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 32,978
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Simplifile
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: www.sheridancounty.com/elected-offices/county-assessor/, www.sheridancountywy.gov/county_government/elected_offices/clerk_and_recorder/index.php, itax.tylertech.com/sheridanwy/, maps.greenwoodmap.com/sheridan/, www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4bb9a66f7287402b8f650aa9f21d3fa5
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.