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Public Records Safety

Vendor scorecard

Fidlar Technologies

40% of the 183 county portals we identified on Fidlar Technologies software have at least partial protection against automated harvesting — below the national 46%.

37

Protected

36

Partially protected

0

Unprotected

  • 37 protected
  • 36 partially protected
  • 110 uncertain

Why the vendor matters

Most counties do not write their own records portal. They license one, and the vendor decides the defaults: whether the site ships a robots.txt that disallows scrapers, whether the terms of use prohibit automated access, and whether a bot challenge sits in front of search. A vendor that turns those on by default protects every county it serves in one release.

If your county is on this list, the fastest path to a better rating is often a support ticket to the vendor, not a new procurement. What Counties Can Do has the language to use.

Counties on Fidlar Technologies

Arkansas(31)

Illinois(47)

Indiana(35)

Iowa(4)

Michigan(6)

Minnesota(12)

Missouri(23)

North Dakota(1)

Ohio(15)

Oregon(1)

Texas(4)

Washington(1)

Wisconsin(2)