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County report card · Mississippi

Montgomery County, Mississippi

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
9,411
Portal
Assessor
Portal vendor
Kofile / Granicus

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: montgomerycounty.org/

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

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.