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Public Records Safety

County report card · Oregon

Coos County, Oregon

UncertainAudited 2026-08-24

Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved

Population
64,326
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 challengehCaptcha
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: www.co.coos.or.us/assessor, records.co.coos.or.us/DigitalResearchRoomPublic, records.co.coos.or.us/pso, www.ormap.org/, ormap.net/

Doing well

  • Technical barriers (hcaptcha) 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 protections that residents in other counties have found valuable:

1. Adding robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers

2. Including a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access

3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed (per the AZ, FL, HI, IL, UT model)

The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.