County report card · Hawaii
Honolulu County, Hawaii
Real estate recording is handled by the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances; County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 998,747
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Tyler Technologies
In Hawaii, real estate recording is centralized at the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances — the same protection applies statewide. Recorder: 808-587-0147.
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — blocks bots
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationAvailable
Portal audited: www.qpublic.net/hi/honolulu/, dlnr.hawaii.gov/boc/online-services/, bocdataext.hi.wcicloud.com/, geoportal.hawaii.gov/
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
- A notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
No gaps confirmed. Some checks could not be completed for this portal, so there may be room the audit could not see.
What to ask for
Because real estate recording for Hawaii is centralized at the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances, the strongest protections are set at the state level. You might encourage the agency and our state representatives to maintain robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers, a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access, and a property-owner notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.