County report card · South Carolina

Richland County, South Carolina

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

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

Population: 430,651
Portal: Assessor
Portal vendor: Kofile / Granicus

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 challengeNone detected
Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: richlandcountysc.gov/Government/Departments/Taxes/Assessor, www.richlandcountysc.gov/Online-Services/Online-Data-Services, www.richlandmaps.com/apps/dataviewer, www7.richlandcountysc.gov/TreasurerTaxInfo/Main.aspx

Doing well

No protections against automated access were found in this audit.

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.