County report card · Alaska
Sitka County, Alaska
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 8,355
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Kofile / Granicus
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 useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.cityofsitka.com/, dnr.alaska.gov/ssd/recoff/searchRO.cfm, www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/osa/osa_home.htm, dnr.alaska.gov/ssd/recoff/search/, www.mainstreetmaps.com/AK/Sitka/
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
Room to grow
No gaps confirmed. Some checks could not be completed for this portal, so there may be room the audit could not see.
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.