County report card · California
Solano County, California
Vendor (Aumentum / Thomson Reuters) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 455,101
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Aumentum / Thomson Reuters
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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: recorderonline.solanocounty.com/search/Pages/SearchDisclaimer.aspx, ca-solano.publicaccessnow.com/Assessor/PropertySearch.aspx, ca-solano.publicaccessnow.com/TaxCollector/TaxSearch.aspx, solanocountygis.com/portal/home/
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Three low-cost protections that residents in other counties have found valuable:
1. Adding robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Including a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed (per the AZ, FL, HI, IL, UT model)
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.