County report card · Louisiana
St. Helena County, Louisiana
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 10,857
- 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 — blocks bots
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: eclerksla.com/home, sthelenaparish.la.gov/assessor.aspx, www.latax.la.gov/#taxroll, sthelena.propertytaxonline.net/PropertyTax/propSrch.aspx
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.