County report card · Nebraska
Dawson County, Nebraska
County portal could not be reached or returned errors during audit
- Population
- 24,554
- Portal
- Assessor
- Portal vendor
- Not identified
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtNot checked
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengereCAPTCHA
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: dawson.gisworkshop.com/, www.nebraskataxesonline.us/taxcollpage1.aspx?county=Dawson, dawson.gworks.com/, www.nebraskadeedsonline.us/search.aspx?county=18
Doing well
- Technical barriers (recaptcha) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
Our 2026 audit could not reach Dawson County's records portal at the time of the scan, so this letter may be incomplete. If protections are already in place, please consider this a friendly request to confirm.
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.