County report card · North Dakota
Stark County, North Dakota
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website robots.txt blocks automated access
- Population
- 33,767
- 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 challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.starkcountynd.gov/index.asp?SEC={991AD6A2-7509-4CA2-9E85-70BFC248FCB9}, dickinsoncity.northdakotaassessors.com/, www.ndrin.com/counties/stark/, stark.northdakotaassessors.com/, itax.tylertech.com/starknd/default.aspx
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.