County report card · Iowa
Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 42,493
- 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 notificationUnknown
Portal audited: cerrogordocountyia-web.tylerhost.net/web/search/DOCSEARCH548S1, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=408&LayerID=6228&PageTypeID=2&PageID=3318, www.iowatreasurers.org/, beaconbeta.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=408&LayerID=6228&PageTypeID=1&PageID=0
Doing well
- 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.