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01 31, 2024

House Judiciary Committee Approves Two Attorney General’s Office Bills

Two South Dakota Attorney General legislative bills were approved Wednesday by the State House Judiciary Committee.

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01 29, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Joins Effort Supporting Texas’s Right To Secure Border

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a coalition of 27 states in supporting the state of Texas’s efforts to secure its southern border.

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01 25, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Thanks Legislators For First Approval of Office’s Legislative Package

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is thanking state legislators for their bi-partisan support for the Attorney General’s Office’s legislative package.

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01 23, 2024

Senate Committee Approves Child Pornography Bill That Includes Attorney General’s A.I. Legislation

Senate Bill 79, which revises various levels of child pornography crime and which also includes the Attorney General’s Office’s bill that would make Artificial Intelligence-generated child pornography a crime, was unanimously approved Tuesday by the State Senate Judiciary Committee

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01 22, 2024

Yankton Man Changes Plea in Manslaughter Case

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a Yankton man has pleaded guilty to First Degree Manslaughter in connection to a stabbing death that occurred May 22, 2023 in Yankton.

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01 19, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Joins Petition Challenging EPA Proposed Rule for Clean Air Act

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 24 other Attorneys General in a petition asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare unlawful a proposed federal rule removing further state discretion with the Clean Air Act.

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01 19, 2024

South Dakota Attorney General Jackley, Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Haggar, Minnehaha County Sheriff Milstead Partner On Domestic Violence Grant

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Daniel Haggar, and Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead have partnered on a federal grant to combat domestic violence. 

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01 19, 2024

Senate Legislative Committee Unanimously Approves Attorney General’s Bill on Open Meeting Commission

Senate Bill 26 which would allow Deputy State’s Attorneys, in addition to State’s Attorneys, to serve on the state’s Open Meeting Commission was unanimously approved Friday by the Senate State Affairs Committee.

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01 18, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Requests FCC To Restrict Use of A.I. In Marketing Phone Calls

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and 25 other Attorneys General are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to restrict the use of artificial intelligence by telemarketers.

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01 18, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Requests SCOTUS To Reverse Colorado Ballot Disqualification of Trump

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined an amicus brief requesting the U.S. Supreme Court reverse the Colorado State Supreme Court ruling that kept former President Donald Trump off the ballot for that state’s Presidential Primary election.

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01 17, 2024

Attorney General Jackley, SD News Media Association Release Updated Open Meeting Laws Guide

An updated guide explaining South Dakota’s Open Meeting Laws has been released by South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and the South Dakota NewsMedia Association (SDNA).

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01 16, 2024

House Committee Unanimously Approves Xylazine Bill

House Bill 1028, which would classify Xylazine as a Schedule III controlled substance, was unanimously approved Tuesday by the House Health and Human Services Committee.

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01 12, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Announces Appointments to Open Meeting Commission

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has appointed five state’s attorneys to the Open Meeting Commission effective immediately.

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01 11, 2024

Legislative Committee Approves First Fentanyl Bill In Attorney General’s Legislative Package

The first bill in the South Dakota Attorney General’s legislative package was unanimously approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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01 05, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Names New Chief Deputy, Criminal Litigation Division Director

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has named Brent Kempema as the new Chief Deputy for the Attorney General’s Office.

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01 04, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Warns of Medicare Telephone Scam

Telephone scams targeting Medicare recipients are now being reported in South Dakota, according to Attorney General Marty Jackley.

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01 03, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Announces Watertown Man Sentenced to Prison on Kidnapping Charges

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Watertown man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to two counts of Second Degree Kidnapping.

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01 03, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Announces Spearfish Man Sentenced to Prison For Second Degree Murder

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Spearfish man has been sentenced to life in prison after earlier being convicted of Murder in the Second Degree in the 2022 shooting death of his wife.

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01 02, 2024

Attorney General Jackley Joins Multi-State Effort To Strike Down Firearm Magazine Ban

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 24 other state Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief challenging a California law that would ban firearm magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds.

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