County report card · Colorado
Elbert County, Colorado
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 29,382
- 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: services.elbertcounty-co.gov/assessor/taxweb/search.jsp, elbertcountyco-recorder.tylerhost.net/recorder/eagleweb/, www.elbertcounty-co.gov/283/Treasurer, foreclosures.elbertcounty-co.gov/, maps.elbertcounty-co.gov/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experience/?id=83ae12baa0754b988e3932b2ee497ce6
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
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.