County report card · Minnesota
Big Stone County, Minnesota
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 5,067
- 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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: bigstonecounty.gov/departments/assessor/property-information/, www.bigstonecounty.org/government/recorder/real_estate.php, tapestry.fidlar.com, bigstonecounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4676b6dfe55049f69da08a8abcec3201
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
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.