County report card · California
Shasta County, California
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 181,121
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: recorderselfservice.shastacounty.gov/web/user/disclaimer, www.shastacounty.gov/assessor/page/online-assessment-inquiry, common2.mptsweb.com/mbc/shasta/tax/search, gis.shastacounty.gov/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4f98f0b9cadb415d8a3f2b8c5c1b2e8e
Doing well
- 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.