County report card · Montana
Teton County, Montana
County portal uses Cloudflare bot detection which deters automated access but may be bypassed by determined actors; its robots.txt also disallows automated access to 2 paths (/wp-admin/, /wp-content/uploads/wpo/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json)
- Population
- 6,444
- 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 useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: tetoncomt.org/clerk-recorder-elections/, svc.mt.gov/dor/property, svc.mt.gov/dor/property/prc#/map, itax.tylertech.com/TetonMT/default.aspx
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
What to ask for
Three low-cost steps that have worked in other counties to close gaps like this one:
1. Adding clear robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.