County report card · Montana
Sanders County, Montana
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 13,895
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: svc.mt.gov/dor/property, www.co.sanders.mt.us/, webx.mtcounty.com/bmsrdl.php?customer_id=220¤t_app=tpay&header_text=Tax%20Payment%20Search&body_include=tax_pay_search_form, svc.mt.gov/dor/property/prc#/map
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.