County report card · North Dakota
Ransom County, North Dakota
Vendor (Simplifile) policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 5,590
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Simplifile
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: ransomcountynd.net/recorder/, www.ndrin.com/counties/ransom/, www.ransomcountynd.com/index.asp?Type=B_DIR&SEC={07108A02-3F00-4F12-9C9A-7F74A21323EF}&DE={07629C83-C3F2-49CE-8909-674489329E8F}, www.ransomcountynd.com/index.asp?Type=B_DIR&SEC={07108A02-3F00-4F12-9C9A-7F74A21323EF}&DE={31D8ED90-28F5-41DB-901F-20032DE84CF8}, ndpropertytax.org/tax/disclaimer.asp?cid=37
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
- Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
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.