County report card · New York
Westchester County, New York
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 1,006,447
- 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 useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: orps1.orpts.ny.gov/cfapps/MuniPro/assessment_roll.cfm, wro.westchesterclerk.com/landsearch.aspx, giswww.westchestergov.com/taxmaps/, www.westchestercountyny.gov/online-data
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
- Technical barriers (access_denied) 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.