Ouray County and the city of Ouray have hired a California company to handle short-term rental enforcement, in an effort to identify and crack down on illegal rentals and to collect more accurate information about the industry.

Both entities hired San Diego-based Deckard Technologies, which runs the platform Rentalscape, to gather data on short-term rentals. The company will provide reports on properties advertised as short-term rentals without permits to both the city and the county, and will se...