County report card · North Dakota
Morton County, North Dakota
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 34,194
- Portal
- Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Fidlar Technologies
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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.mortonnd.org/recorder, www.ndrin.com/counties/morton/, www.mortonnd.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={32E17528-8EC7-4959-B76B-798CF9B68C82}, itax.tylertech.com/mortonnd/, www.co.morton.nd.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={635D1A5A-93AA-4F34-9D00-43F52470B09C}
Doing well
- A robots.txt file that disallows automated scrapers
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.