Not exactly sure how you would set your record threshold, but you could either hard-code that into the python script or read it in from a config file that you can modify in a text editor.
If your Counter from script < threshold then instead of running code send an e-mail alerting you to bad data:
SUBJECT = "CAMA Data Update Alert "
TO = ["e-mail address"]
FROM = "server address"
text = "There was an error GIS data"
BODY = string.join((
"From: %s" % FROM,
"To: %s" % TO,
"Subject: %s" % SUBJECT ,
"",
text
), "\r\n")
server = smtplib.SMTP('SMTP server URL',25) #server = smtplib.SMTP(HOST)
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, BODY)
server.quit()