New Jersey is considering the possibility of putting divorce records on the state Web site, which will raise a lot of questions, says Toni McLaughlin, assistant director of Internet services. Wilkes also runs a Private Internet eXchange Firewall 515 data security device from Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., to control transactions going in or out of the county Web site. But the assessment data has proven popular, Wilkes said. Within three days of posting the data on the Web this summer, Wilkes had to put a second server online to handle the traffic. 700-MHz Pentium III servers with 64M of RAM each.
People use the system for true property comparisons.
But we wanted to prevent economic voyeurism. That's why there's no name search. But some government agencies post financial information that is searchable by name. For example, Idaho's federal District and Bankruptcy Court posts online bankruptcy cases arising in the state. All the data is tied together with a Visual Basic front end, said Peter Diaz, Wade's vice president for operations.