County report card · Utah
Weber County, Utah
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 276,118
- 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 — permissive
- Terms of useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationAvailable
Portal audited: www.webercountyutah.gov/Clerk_Auditor/tax_relief.php, www.webercountyutah.gov/Clerk_Auditor/marriage.php, www.webercountyutah.gov/Clerk_Auditor/passports.php, www.weberelections.gov/registertovote, gis-portal.webercountyutah.gov/arcgis/apps/experiencebuilder/experience/?id=6e5c608648b245d982c10031fc0c5d3b, www.webercountyutah.gov/Clerk_Auditor/value-appeals.php, www.webercountyutah.gov/Assessor/realestateinfo.php, www.webercountyutah.gov/Clerk_Auditor/tax_exempt.php, www.webercountyutah.gov/Assessor/, www.webercountyutah.gov/Clerk_Auditor/, www.webercountyutah.gov/sheriff/homeland/, www.webercountyutah.gov/Recorder_Surveyor/, www.webercountyutah.gov/payments/
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
- A notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
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.