County report card · Minnesota
Nobles County, Minnesota
Vendor (Schneider Geospatial) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 21,969
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Schneider Geospatial
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: www.co.nobles.mn.us/departments/recorder/, beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppId=479&LayerId=6865&PageTypeId=2&PageID=3664, 206.145.187.205/tax/disclaimer_value.asp?cid=53, beacon.schneidercorp.com/?site=NoblesCountyMN
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.