County report card · Iowa
Madison County, Iowa
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 17,161
- 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 — permissive
- Terms of useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: iowalandrecords.org/cas/login, lti2.gmdsolutions.com/drupal/BasicShell?ctid=61&BSI=Search_Realestate&tabid=47823, beacon.schneidercorp.com/, www.iowatreasurers.org/index.php?module=parceldetail&idCounty=61
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
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.