County report card · Colorado
Costilla County, Colorado
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 3,686
- 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 challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.colorado.gov/pacific/costillacounty/costilla-county-clerk-recorder, costillacounty.colorado.gov/departments/assessor, www.costillacounty.gov/clerk-recorder, secure.co.pueblo.co.us/cgi-bin/webatrbroker.wsc/propertytaxpayinfocos.p, costilla-assessor-tyler.obus.io/assessor/web/
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
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.