County report card · Washington
Yakima County, Washington
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 258,523
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar Technologies
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.yakima.wa.us/assessor/, www.yakimacounty.us/268/Researching-Documents, tapestry.fidlar.com, yes.co.yakima.wa.us/ascend/(S(0kircpceocgw4lemreweglws))/default.aspx, yakimap.com/servlet/com.esri.esrimap.Esrimap?name=YakGISH&Cmd=Map
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
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.