County report card · Idaho
Adams County, Idaho
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 4,998
- 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.adams.id.us/department/assessor/notifications-appeals, www.co.adams.id.us/department/clerk-auditor-recorder/election-information, www.co.adams.id.us/department/assessor/motor-vehicles, www.co.adams.id.us/departments/assessor, www.co.adams.id.us/departments/clerk-auditor-recorder, www.co.adams.id.us/department/clerk-auditor-recorder/recordable-documents
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
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.