County report card · Kentucky
Russell County, Kentucky
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 18,458
- 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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.kycountyrecords.com/, qpublic.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?App=RussellCountyKY&Layer=Parcels&PageType=Search, www.russellcountysheriffsdepartment.com/property-tax
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.