County report card · Pennsylvania
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (DevNet / GovOS) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 293,029
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- DevNet / GovOS
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 challengereCAPTCHA
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.dauphinpropertyinfo.org/, www.dauphincounty.gov/government/publicly-elected-officials/recorder-of-deeds, gis.dauphincounty.org/dauphincountyparcelviewer/, dauphinpa.devnetwedge.com/
Doing well
- Technical barriers (recaptcha) 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.