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Public Records Safety

County report card · Florida

Alachua County, Florida

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
291,782
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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
  • Owner notificationAvailable

Portal audited: www.alachuacounty.us/depts/clerk/publicrecords/pages/officialrecords.aspx, qpublic.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1081&LayerID=26490&PageTypeID=2&PageID=10768, alachua.county-taxes.com/public/search/property_tax

Doing well

  • A notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
  • Technical barriers (cloudflare) 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.