County report card · Minnesota
Lincoln County, Minnesota
Vendor (Fidlar Technologies) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 5,564
- 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.txtNot checked
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.lincoln.mn.us/Departments/Recorder.htm, 206.145.187.205/tax/disclaimer.asp?cid=41, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.co.lincoln.mn.us/Departments/Treasurer.htm, www.co.lincoln.mn.us/Departments/gis_maps.htm
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.