County report card · Texas
El Paso County, Texas
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 875,784
- 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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.epcounty.com/taxoffice/, epcad.org/Search, apps.epcountytx.gov/publicrecords/OfficialPublicRecords, actweb.acttax.com/act_webdev/elpaso/index.jsp, gis.elpasotexas.gov/pdnmapajs/
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
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.