County report card · South Dakota
Aurora County, South Dakota
Partially ProtectedAudited 2026-08-21
County portal uses rate limiting which deters automated access but may be bypassed by determined actors; its robots.txt also disallows automated access to 40 paths (/admin, /cart/, /*/cart/…)
- Population
- 2,752
- 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.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeRate limiting
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: auroraco.org/
Doing well
- Technical barriers (rate_limited) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Three low-cost steps that have worked in other counties to close gaps like this one:
1. Adding clear robots.txt rules that disallow automated scrapers
2. Updating the Terms of Use to prohibit automated access
3. Implementing a notification system that alerts residents when their records are accessed
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.