County report card · California
Del Norte County, California
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 27,009
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Tyler 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.del-norte.ca.us/departments/ClerkRecorder/Search, assr.parcelquest.com/Statewide?IndexViewModel=PQGov.Models.IndexViewModel, common3.mptsweb.com/mbc/delnorte/tax/search
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
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.