At its February 3 meeting, the Government Accountability Board gave Governor Kristi Noem until April 15 to respond to two ethics complaints received by the…
Tag: openness
The Legislature must really not want to be bothered as it heads toward impeachment this morning. I just checked the Legislative Research Council’s website and…
On Monday, the House Select Committee on impeachment recommended that the House not impeach killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. The committee produced a 22-page report…
Back at the beginning of Session, the Legislature’s Executive Board passed two noteworthy resolutions pertaining to the process for calling a Special Session. According to…
Here’s a curious technical bill on government openness: House Bill 1087 seeks to amend just one of the many exemptions to South Dakota’s already weak…
Representative Ernie Otten (R-6/Tea) evidently has a bee in his bonnet over transparency from the Governor’s Office. In addition to his House Bill 1041, which…
Governor Kristi Noem’s attempt to buy fired appraiser certification chief Sherry Bren’s silence appears to have prompted at least one government openness bill from legislators.…
Fresh off his chamber’s capitulation to the Will of Schoenbeck in the 2021 redistricting process, Representative Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) wants to drag the Legislature into…
The South Dakota Unified Justice System still hasn’t delivered on producing an easily accessible system for accessing state court documents online ($20 per search? Come…
Evidently stung by one small victory for transparency, Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) has locked the first substantive discussions in the impeachment hearing…