County report card · Texas
Austin County, Texas
UncertainAudited 2026-08-24
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 32,546
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar 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 challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.austincad.org/, ava.fidlar.com/TXAustin/AvaWeb/#/search, www.austincounty.com/page/austin.County.Assessor.Collector, austincad.org/interactive-map/
Doing well
- Technical barriers (access_denied) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
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.