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County report card · Pennsylvania

Washington County, Pennsylvania

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
210,434
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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: tyler.washcopa.org/pt/forms/htmlframe.aspx?mode=content/home.htm, www.washingtoncopa.gov/recorder-of-deeds, tax.washcopa.org/wcmtp/tri_msb.asp, wcpagis-washcodps.hub.arcgis.com/

Doing well

  • Technical barriers (cloudflare) 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.