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Public Records Safety

County report card · Ohio

Butler County, Ohio

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
399,542
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.txtNot checked
  • Terms of useNot checked
  • Bot challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: recorder.bcohio.gov/search_records/real_estate_records_search_-_cloud_search.php, propertysearch.butlercountyauditor.org/search/commonsearch.aspx?mode=owner, www.butlercountytreasurer.org/, 161074.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=022c917993fd4ba482f164f8b0b96ba7

Doing well

No protections against automated access were found in this audit.

Room to grow

No gaps confirmed. Some checks could not be completed for this portal, so there may be room the audit could not see.

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.