Attorney General Marty Jackley has issued an official opinion to clear up the ambiguity of Amendment S (now South Dakota Constitution Article 6 Section 29), the…
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In his detailed take on the complications caused by the enactment of Amendment S, Seth Tupper brings to our attention the trouble Henry T. Nicholas’s crime victims bill…
Pat Powers dings Attorney General Marty Jackley for not including enough representatives of crime victims on his new task force to figure out how to clean up…
Amendment S, the new crime victims bill of rights, is already infringing on the rights of defendants by keeping them in jail longer than necessary: The victim notification requirement…
Back to law enforcement: Davison County State’s Attorney Jim Miskimins says the new family-inclusive definition of “victim” may shut down Amber Alerts: According to the amendment, a…
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety and county and city police have stopped issuing information about traffic accidents, for fear that such disclosures may violate the new…
The fact that Dusty Johnson is running for Congress is pretty cool. But even cooler is the likely reason that we know he’s running now: the swift enactment…
But hey, it’s a good thing Governor Daugaard thinks we can save tens of millions by reforming Medicaid. We can put some of the savings toward paying the costs…
Add Union County’s Jerry Miller to the list of state’s attorneys opposing Amendment S. The Union County state’s attorney (one of whose deputies is Jason Ravnsborg, who’s…
Brown County Chief Deputy State’s Attorney Chris White (who will succeed Larry Lovrien as state’s attorney after the election), joins the state’s attorneys of Pennington and…