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County report card · Washington

Spokane County, Washington

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
555,947
Portal
Assessor & Recorder
Portal vendor
Tyler Technologies

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.spokanecounty.org/pubpadal/, recording.spokanecounty.org/recorder/web/, cp.spokanecounty.org/scout/SCOUTDashboard/, www.spokanecounty.org/222/Geographic-Information-Systems

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.