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County report card · Texas

Ellis County, Texas

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website robots.txt blocks automated access

Population
232,387
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 challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: www.elliscad.org/, co.ellis.tx.us/74/County-Clerk, actweb.acttax.com/ellis/ellis/index.jsp, public.lgsonlinesolutions.com/ors.html

Doing well

  • A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers

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.