County report card · North Dakota
Ward County, North Dakota
Vendor policy on automation has not been resolved
- Population
- 68,427
- 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 — permissive
- Terms of useSilent on automation
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.ward.nd.us/194/Recorder, www.ndrin.com/counties/ward/, www.co.ward.nd.us/285/Property-Tax, www.co.ward.nd.us/264/Tax-Equalization, itax.tylertech.com/wardnd/default.aspx, maps.wardnd.com/parcelviewer/
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.