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County report card · Texas

Brazoria County, Texas

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-21

County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
413,224
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 useProhibits automation
  • Bot challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: esearch.brazoriacad.org/, brazoriacountytx-web.tylerhost.net/web/user/disclaimer, tax.brazoriacountytx.gov/, copgisweb.ci.pearland.tx.us/web/index.htm

Doing well

  • A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records

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.