County report card · Minnesota
Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 3,797
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: beacon.schneidercorp.com/, www.co.lake-of-the-woods.mn.us/recorder/real-estate/, www.co.lake-of-the-woods.mn.us/Treasurer.aspx, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1040&LayerID=22694&PageTypeID=1&PageID=0
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
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.