County report card · Colorado
Douglas County, Colorado
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 393,995
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
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: www.douglas.co.us/assessor/, apps.douglas.co.us/OnCoreWeb/Search.aspx, apps.douglas.co.us/apps/treasurer/tidi/parcelSearch.do, apps.douglas.co.us/dcmaps/map.html?mapInstance=realProperty, www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
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
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.