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County report card · Florida

St. Lucie County, Florida

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website robots.txt blocks automated access

Population
390,670
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 — blocks bots
  • Terms of useSilent on automation
  • Bot challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationAvailable

Portal audited: stlucieclerk.gov/public-search-gen/official-records-search, www.paslc.gov/, county-taxes.net/stlucie/property-tax

Doing well

  • A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
  • A notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed

Room to grow

  • Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access

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.