County report card · North Dakota
Cass County, North Dakota
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 200,945
- 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 — blocks bots
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeAccess denied to automated clients
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.fargoparcels.com/, www.casscountynd.gov/our-county/recorder/helpful-links, assessments.westfargond.gov, www.ndrin.com/counties/cass/, www.casscountynd.gov/services/property-taxes, cass-county-hub-casscountynd.hub.arcgis.com/apps/mobile-parcel-data-search-application/explore, www.casscountynd.gov/our-county/assessor/research-a-property
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
- Technical barriers (access_denied) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.