County report card · Minnesota
Stevens County, Minnesota
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 9,819
- 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: 206.145.187.205/tax/disclaimer.asp?cid=75, mn-stevenscounty.civiccities.com/index.aspx?NID=1082, tapestry.fidlar.com, www.co.stevens.mn.us/index.aspx?nid=864, stevens-county.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4fe542d4d598442bb1058b03377aab50
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
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.