County report card · Alaska
Kodiak Island County, Alaska
Real estate recording is handled by the Alaska DNR State Recorder's Office; County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 12,654
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
In Alaska, real estate recording is centralized at the Alaska DNR State Recorder's Office — the same protection applies statewide. Recorder: 907-269-8881.
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — blocks bots
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.kodiakak.us/index.aspx?NID=69, dnr.alaska.gov/ssd/recoff/searchRO.cfm, dnr.alaska.gov/ssd/recoff/search/, www.kodiakak.us/index.aspx?NID=339
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
What to ask for
Because real estate recording for Alaska is centralized at the Alaska DNR State Recorder's Office, the strongest protections are set at the state level. You might encourage the agency and our state representatives to maintain robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers, a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access, and a property-owner notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.