County report card · North Dakota
Williams County, North Dakota
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 40,763
- Portal
- 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 useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.williamsnd.com/search-recorded-documents/, itax.tylertech.com/WilliamsND/, williams.northdakotaassessors.com/search.php, www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b47f4c54a3574836ab388cd00b0626f9&extent=-11722444.7097%2C6057546.0438%2C-11331087.1249%2C6249708.7329%2C102100
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
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.