County report card · Idaho
Payette County, Idaho
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 27,662
- 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: www.payettecounty.org/elected-officials/assessors, documentsearch.payettecounty.org:444/Recording_New, idahoparcels.us:8080/gm3/desktop/payette.html#on=sketch/default;scalebar_feet/scalebar_feet;parcels/parcels;boundry/boundry;parcels1/parcels1;openstreetmap/osm_mapnik&loc=76.43702828517625;-13006396.6;5461253.7, www.payettecounty.org/elected-officials/treasurer/property-tax-information
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.