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County report card · Virginia

Falls Church City County, Virginia

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
15,034
Portal
Recorder
Portal vendor
Kofile / Granicus

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: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/topics/courts-and-legal/, landrec.arlingtonva.us/public/sites.html, property.fallschurchva.gov/Parcelviewer/Account/Logon, www.invoicecloud.com/portal/(S(0bybphm0nnwov3owprgfaxlr))/Site.aspx?G=f86e4a6c-cfd8-4d23-a02f-ec2ed6ea22b9

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.