Beaver County judges' names are back on the county's real estate assessment Web site after the county commissioners decided this week to defy the wishes of the county's top judge.

"We weighed all the issues and decided to go back to the way it was," Commissioner Dan Donatella said.

The judges' names were removed in response to an April 24 court order from county President Judge Robert E. Kunselman.

Judge Kunselman, at the time, said one of the county judges had received a threat, and he thought it was unsafe for the general public to be able to search the Web site and find judges' addresses.

The commissioners, however, had considered the issue last June and had elected to keep all names on the site. And they considered the court order an infringement on their authority.

After some legal jockeying, Common Pleas Judge Deborah A. Kunselman, the daughter-in-law of Robert E. Kunselman who was assigned to represent the judges in talks with the commissioners, said her father-in-law was dropping the court order, and proposed as a compromise that the Web site be changed so that a user could not search it by name. The names would be listed, but you couldn't plug someone's name in and get his or her address.

Mr. Donatella said yesterday that that compromise was not acceptable to the commissioners.

"Essentially, it would be depriving the public of access to public records," he said. "What's the next step? What else are we going to take off the Internet?"

He said that, even if the Web site were changed, the information would still have been easily accessible in several other ways.