County report card · Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 38,100
- 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 — blocks bots
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.landex.com/land-records-access.asp, www.susqco.com/departments/assessment, susqco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3685466c65fb4a9bb628d7d24849ff4e
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.