County report card · Arkansas
Benton County, Arkansas
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 321,566
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.search.bentoncircuitclerk.com/search.php, www.arcountydata.com/county.asp?county=Benton, bentoncountyar.gov/collector/, gis.bentoncountyar.gov/Parcels/index.html?HomePage
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
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
Building on the protections already in place, you might consider a property-owner notification system (like the ones AZ, FL, HI, IL, and UT have implemented) and a formal data-governance policy that addresses commercial data aggregators.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.