County report card · New York
Ulster County, New York
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 182,977
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Kofile / Granicus
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.ulstercountyny.gov/realproperty/, www.searchiqs.com/NYULS/Login.aspx, ulstercountyny.gov/maps/parcel-viewer/, taxlookup.net/index.aspx
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.