County report card · North Dakota
Nelson County, North Dakota
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 3,007
- 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.nelsonco.org/index.asp?SEC={79136C4B-EB7F-4EF7-A1C4-C56CA98A6DE4}&Type=B_BASIC, www.ndrin.com/counties/nelson/, www.nelsonco.org/departments/tax_director/veterans_with_disability_property_tax_credit.php, www.nelsonco.org/departments/tax_director/property_taxes.php, www.tax.nd.gov/local-government/property-tax, www.nelsonco.org/index.asp?SEC={E2184B6A-A63D-40E0-8A6E-072A1EB32AB6}&Type=B_BASIC, www.nelsonco.org/index.asp?SEC=397188EE-9EAD-4DD2-90F2-8F98F6A000A2, nelson.offroadsoftware.com/
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.