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County report card · Montana

Park County, Montana

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
18,074
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.parkcounty.org/site/1cr.html, svc.mt.gov/dor/property, itax.tylertech.com/ParkMT/, svc.mt.gov/dor/property/prc#/map

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.