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County report card · Missouri

Warren County, Missouri

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Terms of Use prohibits automated access

Population
38,478
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 useProhibits automation
  • Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: warren.missouriassessors.com/search.php, warrencountymoclerk.com/public-record/, tapestry.fidlar.com, taxes.governmentor.com/warren-county-mo/

Doing well

  • A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
  • 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.