County report card · Minnesota
St. Louis County, Minnesota
County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access
- Population
- 200,794
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useProhibits automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.stlouiscountymn.gov/residents/courts-law, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/residents/permits-licenses-and-records, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/residents/property-home, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/business/permits-licenses-and-records, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/business/property-development, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/assessor, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/land-minerals, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/property-management, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/public-records, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/document-search, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/assessor/about-the-assessor, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/assessor/contact-your-assessor, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/assessor/assessment-process, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/assessor/property-information, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/assessor/programs, www.stlouiscountymn.gov/departments-a-z/auditor/clerk-of-the-county-board
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
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.