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Public Records Safety

County report card · South Dakota

Sully County, South Dakota

UnprotectedAudited 2026-08-24

No robots.txt restrictions found; no Terms of Use addressing automation

Population
1,468
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 challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: sully.sdcounty.gov

Doing well

No protections against automated access were found in this audit.

Room to grow

No gaps confirmed. Some checks could not be completed for this portal, so there may be room the audit could not see.

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.