County report card · Delaware
Sussex County, Delaware
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 271,134
- 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: property.sussexcountyde.gov/PT/forms/htmlframe.aspx?mode=content/home.htm, sussexcountyde.gov/recorder-deeds, deeds.sussexcountyde.gov/LandmarkWeb, sussexcountyde.gov/sussex-county-mapping-applications, munis.sussexcountyde.gov/css/citizens/RealEstate/Default.aspx?mode=new, wipp.edmundsassoc.com/Wipp/?wippid=SFRD, wipp.edmundsassoc.com/Wipp/?wippid=OCVW
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.