County report card · North Carolina
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
UncertainAudited 2026-08-21
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 1,206,285
- Portal
- Assessor
- 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 challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: cao.mecknc.gov/, polaris3g.mecklenburgcountync.gov/, deeds.mecknc.gov/services/real-estate-records, taxbill.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/publicwebaccess/
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
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.