County report card · Alabama
Baldwin County, Alabama
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 261,608
- Portal
- Assessor
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
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.baldwincountyal.gov/government/28th-judicial-circuit-court, open.baldwincountyal.gov/, www.baldwincountyal.gov/departments/parks/Live-Oak-Landing-AL-Live-View, baldwincountyal.gov/home/docs/default-source/default-document-library/20260326-notice-planning-and-zoning-commission-april-2-2026-agenda-rev-reg-ws-mtgs, baldwincountyal.gov/home/docs/default-source/default-document-library/20260323-notice-esmpo-april-2026-meetings, baldwincountyal.gov/home/docs/default-source/default-document-library/20260323-notice-esmpo-public-involvement-mtg-for-draft-2026-ppp, baldwincountyal.gov/home/docs/default-source/default-document-library/20260310-notice-boa-1-mar-17-2026-mtg-agenda, baldwincountyal.gov/home/docs/default-source/default-document-library/20260309-notice-lepc-full-body-mtg-march-16-2026, baldwincountyal.gov/government/revenue-commission/search-records, isv.kcsgis.com/al.baldwin_revenue/, baldwin.al.publicsearch.us/
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.