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Public Records Safety

County report card · Vermont

Chittenden County, Vermont

Inconclusive

Insufficient data to determine protection status

Population
170,851
Portal
None identified
Portal vendor
Not identified

In Vermont, recording and assessment are handled at the town level by town clerks — 0 of 18 towns audited so far. Your protection depends on your town.

What the audit checked

Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.

  • robots.txtNot checked
  • Terms of useNot checked
  • Bot challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: map.ccrpcvt.org/ChittendenCountyVT/

Doing well

No protections against automated access were found in this audit.

Room to grow

Our 2026 audit could not reach Chittenden County's records portal at the time of the scan, so this letter may be incomplete. If protections are already in place, please consider this a friendly request to confirm.

What to ask for

Three low-cost protections that residents in other counties have found valuable:

1. Adding robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers

2. Including a Terms of Use that prohibits automated access

3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed (per the AZ, FL, HI, IL, UT model)

The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.