County report card · Ohio
Ashtabula County, Ohio
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-21
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 96,906
- 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 challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: cotthosting.com/ohashtabula/LandRecords/protected/SrchQuickName.aspx, auditor.ashtabulacounty.us/PT/search/commonsearch.aspx?mode=owner, www.co.ashtabula.oh.us/311/Treasurer, parcelmap.ashtabulacounty.us/viewer/
Doing well
- 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.