County report card · Idaho
Elmore County, Idaho
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 29,729
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: elmorecounty.org/assessor/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/assessor-faqs/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/assessor-duties/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/homeowners-exemption/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/how-property-assessed/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/judge-ferguson/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/military-personnel-vets/, elmorecounty.org/assessor/property-tax-reduction-program/, elmorecounty.org/recorder/, elmorecounty.org/treasurer-tax-collector/property-tax-calculation/
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
Three low-cost protections that residents in other counties have found valuable:
1. Adding robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Including a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed (per the AZ, FL, HI, IL, UT model)
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.