County report card · Washington
Columbia County, Washington
Vendor (Harris Govern) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 4,025
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Harris Govern
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: 64.184.153.98/PropertyAccess/PropertySearch.aspx?cid=0, www.columbiaco.com/index.aspx?nid=24, www.columbiaco.com/index.aspx?nid=75
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.