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Public Records Safety

County report card · Arkansas

Sebastian County, Arkansas

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access

Population
130,035
Portal
Assessor & Recorder
Portal vendor
Fidlar Technologies

What the audit checked

Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.

  • robots.txtYes — permissive
  • Terms of useProhibits automation
  • Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: www.sebastiancountyar.gov/Departments/CountyClerk.aspx, www.arcountydata.com/county.asp?county=Sebastian&s=R, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.arcountydata.com/index.asp, tascgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=32890cc78aee488c972aa4d058523bde

Doing well

  • A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
  • Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access

Room to grow

  • Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers

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.