County report card · North Dakota
Divide County, North Dakota
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 2,124
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Tyler 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.dividecountynd.org/county_government/county_offices/recorder, www.ndrin.com/counties/divide/, www.dividecountynd.org/county_government/county_offices/tax_equalization/disabled_veteran_property_tax_credit, www.dividecountynd.org/county_government/county_offices/tax_equalization/understanding_property_taxes, www.dividecountynd.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=12626378, www.dividecountynd.org/how_do_i_/get_information/property_tax_statement, www.dividecountynd.org/county_government/county_offices/tax_equalization, portico.mygisonline.com/html5/?viewer=dividend
Doing well
- A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records
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.