County report card · Arkansas
Crawford County, Arkansas
County portal uses an access restriction which deters automated access but may be bypassed by determined actors
- Population
- 62,258
- 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 — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.actdatascout.com/default.aspx?CI=7, crawfordcircuitclerk.com/node/22, www.arcountydata.com/propsearch.asp?county=Crawford&s=T, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=374&LayerID=5195&PageTypeID=1
Doing well
- Technical barriers (access_denied) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Three low-cost steps that have worked in other counties to close gaps like this one:
1. Adding clear robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.