| 11 19, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 31 other Attorneys General in urging Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which would protect children from online harm.
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| 11 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Marshall County State’s Attorney Victor Rapkoch announce a Britton man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to two counts of possessing, manufacturing or distributing child pornography.
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| 11 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Rapid City man was arrested Tuesday, Nov. 12, on six drug charges following an investigation conducted by federal, state, and local law enforcement.
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| 11 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the State Open Meeting Commission will meet Monday, Nov. 18 in Pierre, the first time the commission has met since 2020.
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| 11 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley calls Thursday’s South Dakota Supreme Court decision reversing a circuit court’s order requiring a victim to provide her diaries to the defendants in a rape and sexual contact case a victory for victims’ rights.
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| 11 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley honors the 48 recruits who will graduate Friday, Nov. 15, from the Basic Law Enforcement training program in Pierre.
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| 11 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and 22 other Attorneys General are requesting Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis end their political prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
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| 11 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and 46 other Attorneys General call upon the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve their Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) and close what has effectively been an unmonitored loophole that bad actors exploit to access the U.S. telephone network.
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| 11 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has released the final ballot explanation for a proposed 2026 initiated measure that would limit annual property tax assessment increases for non-agricultural property.
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| 11 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley praises last week’s U.S. District Court’s ruling that permanently blocks a Biden Administration’s “parole in place” policy that would have provided citizenship for more than a million illegal aliens who have not satisfied the clear requirements set by Congress.
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| 11 06, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a White River man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, with 20 years suspended, after earlier being convicted on three charges, including two counts of rape.
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| 11 05, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issues this statement regarding the safety and integrity of today’s election in South Dakota.
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| 11 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley urges citizens to support a peaceful transition of power after Tuesday’s Presidential Election.
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| 11 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Fort Pierre man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison after earlier being found guilty of nine felony counts of rape, sexual contact with a child, and incest involving two different children.
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| 11 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces the state will receive almost $300,000 as part of a settlement with global health company Apotex and Teva Pharmaceuticals to resolve allegations of generic drug price-fixing.
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| 11 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the South Dakota Division of Criminal investigation (DCI), at the request of the Rapid City Police Department, is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Friday, Nov. 1, in Rapid City.
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| 11 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces two inmates have been found guilty of assaulting two correctional officers at the South Dakota Penitentiary in 2023.
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| 11 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and 19 other Attorneys General are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to affirm the dismissal of U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former President Donald Trump.
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| 10 30, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley praises today’s (Wednesday’s) decision by the United States Supreme Court to allow Virginia to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls.
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| 10 29, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley provides his guidance on public discussion regarding criminal cases involving state government agencies.
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| 10 25, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Wagner youth has pleaded guilty to one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree, a Class C felony, in the connection with the stabbing death of a 16-year-old male in 2023.
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| 10 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that $5 million in grants will be shared by 41 organizations who will use the funds to assist children who have been abused or neglected, victims of domestic violence, and victims of sexual assault.
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| 10 21, 2024 | As required by state law, an explanation for a proposed initiated measure that would limit annual property tax assessment increases for non-agricultural property, which would be on the 2026 general election ballot if approved, has been submitted for public review by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
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| 10 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley hosts an Attorney General Alliance (AGA) Working Group Meeting next Wednesday through Friday, Oct. 23-25, in Deadwood.
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| 10 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces his office and the South Dakota Board of Regents, on behalf of South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota, have filed a motion seeking to have its lawsuit against the NCAA heard in state, not federal, court.
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| 10 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley Tuesday argued in North Dakota U.S. Federal Court that a proposed federal rule that treats DACA recipients as legal citizens would impact the financial health and public safety of States.
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| 10 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, Kansas Attorney Genera Kris Kobach, and North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley will appear Tuesday in North Dakota U.S. Federal Court to argue against a proposed federal rule that treats DACA recipients as legal citizens.
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| 10 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Meade County Sheriff Pat West announce that a Louisiana man has been arrested for deceptive business practices involving an asphalt paving job.
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| 10 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Sioux Falls man has been indicted on one count of Grand Theft by exercising unauthorized control over the Lincoln County Fraternal Order of Police Union funds.
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| 10 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns South Dakotans to now be even more vigilant about money donation scams for relief efforts stemming from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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| 10 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces two Pierre women have been indicted on fraud-related charges connected to crimes committed while they were both employees of the South Dakota Department of Revenue.
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| 10 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Gillette, Wyoming woman has been ordered to pay $93,367.05 in restitution after pleading guilty to one count of Grand Theft By Exploitation.
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| 10 08, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 12 students who graduate this Friday from the state Basic Telecommunicator Certification Course.
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| 10 08, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces he has joined a coalition of 22 Attorneys General to enforce a court order that requires TikTok to comply with an ongoing multistate consumer protection investigation and to preserve and produce relevant evidence.
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| 10 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and South Dakota Bankers Association (SDBA) President Karl Adam announce a partnership to educate bank customers about banking scams.
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| 10 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 11 other Attorneys General in urging Congress to pass the AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act of 2024, stressing the importance of AM radios in times of emergencies.
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| 10 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Custer County State’s Attorney Tracy Kelley announce that a Pringle, SD man has been arrested on felony arson charges related to nine separate wildland and structure fires that recently have occurred in Custer County.
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| 10 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns the public that members of the South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force are not calling citizens demanding money.
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| 10 02, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns South Dakotans about money donation scams involving relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Helene.
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| 10 02, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a current South Dakota Penitentiary inmate has been sentenced to an additional two years in prison for assaulting a South Dakota Department of Corrections employee.
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| 10 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a former prison employee has pleaded guilty to one count of a Prohibited Sexual Act Between a Prison Employee and Prisoner.
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| 09 26, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a coalition of 29 Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to consider a Maryland case where the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Maryland law banning hundreds of styles of firearms.
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| 09 26, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the South Dakota Child Abduction Response Team (CART) this week held a child abduction exercise in Pierre.
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| 09 19, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley strongly urges citizens to stay alert when dealing with internet and telephone scams.
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| 09 19, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 19 recruits who graduate Friday from the Law Enforcement Training program held in Sioux Falls.
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| 09 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley recognizes the South Dakota Forensic Lab in celebration of this week being National Forensic Science Week.
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| 09 17, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that an Aberdeen man has been indicted on seven counts of computer-generated child pornography which are part of a new South Dakota law that took effect this past July 1.
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| 09 17, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a California man has been indicted in an internet scam involving a Lawrence County couple.
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| 09 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the South Dakota Forensic Lab has identified a DNA sample that was collected from an attempted rape in 2022 that occurred in South Dakota, and which has now allowed the case to be reopened.
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| 09 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Marion man has been sentenced to 160 years in prison after earlier being convicted of criminal charges against a child.
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| 09 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 41 other Attorneys General in asking Congress to pass legislation requiring a U.S. Surgeon General warning on all algorithm-driven social media platforms.
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| 09 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Mount Vernon man has pleaded guilty to both Second-Degree Manslaughter and Abuse of or Cruelty to a Minor in connection to the death of a three-year-old child in March 2023.
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| 09 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that, in an answer to a question from the Secretary of State, that he interprets the State Constitution requires a sponsor of an initiated ballot measure to be a citizen of South Dakota.
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| 09 10, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces his office and the South Dakota Board of Regents, on behalf of South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota, have filed a complaint against the NCAA, and its proposed settlement on its past conduct.
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| 09 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has released the final ballot explanation for the proposed initiated measure that would require non-denominational prayer in public schools, which would be on the 2026 general election ballot if approved. The sponsor of the proposed initiated measure is Hillel Hellinger of North Miami Beach, Fla.
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| 08 29, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that 21 officers, including nine tribal law enforcement officers, will graduate from the state’s tribal prioritized law enforcement class course on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
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| 08 29, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Lincoln County State’s Attorney Tom Wollman announce that a Sioux Falls man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of Possessing, Manufacturing or Distributing Child Pornography.
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| 08 28, 2024 | South Dakota’s Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Training Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to re-establish a reciprocity articulation agreement with Western Dakota Technical College (WDTC) of Rapid City.
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| 08 27, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a former state Department of Social Services employee has pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing an estimated $1.8 million in state and federal funds from the department’s Child Protection Services
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| 08 26, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley hosts a National Attorney General Alliance (AGA) Working Group Meeting Oct. 22-25 in Deadwood where Attorneys General from across the country will work on issues impacting states.
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| 08 23, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is among 21 Attorneys General demanding answers from online retailer Temu regarding its alleged ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), data collection and sharing practices, and possible violations of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).
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| 08 22, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley joins 26 other Attorneys General in filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to limit the Biden Administration’s “Frame or Receiver” firearms rule proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).
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| 08 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns the public about recurring scam telephone calls where citizens are threatened with arrest warrants or fines for failure to perform a court-ordered action.
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| 08 20, 2024 | At the request of the sponsor, an explanation for a proposed initiated measure that would require non-denominational prayer in public schools, which would be on the 2026 general election ballot if approved, has been submitted for public review by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
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| 08 19, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley praises a recent U.S. 8th Circuit Court reversal on a federal ATF rule banning pistol braces.
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| 08 19, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that he has joined a civil antitrust lawsuit with the U.S. Justice Department and 40 other Attorneys General against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolization and other unlawful conduct in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.
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| 08 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces three people were arrested early Friday morning, Aug. 16, on fentanyl and methamphetamine charges following an investigation conducted by several state and local law enforcement agencies.
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| 08 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issues this statement regarding the investigation into the actions of a former South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles employee.
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| 08 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a 60-year-old man from Conde has been found guilty of seven counts of taking money from an elderly person who was in his care.
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| 08 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined Attorneys General from seven other states in challenging a Presidential Executive Order that would encroach on the States’ authority to regulate voter registration.
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| 08 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley testified Wednesday that an Age Verification statute for minors accessing harmful Internet content should be considered by the South Dakota Legislature.
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| 08 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a 51-year-old Rapid City man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to First-Degree Manslaughter.
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| 08 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Fort Pierre man has been convicted of nine felony counts of rape, sexual contact with a child, and Incest involving two different children.
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| 07 31, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Sturgis man has been sentenced to 65 years in prison after earlier being convicted of 11 counts of felony crimes involving five different children.
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| 07 31, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Minnehaha County Grand Jury Monday indicted six people regarding five different cases involving South Dakota Prison inmates and two others who were Department of Corrections staff members at that time.
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| 07 26, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) review indicates that a Sioux Falls Police Officer and a Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Deputy were justified in the shooting involving a Sioux Falls gas station clerk hostage incident that occurred on July 3, 2024.
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| 07 25, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Winner man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, after earlier pleading guilty to Third-Degree Rape of a person incapable of giving consent.
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| 07 25, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley praises a U.S. District Court’s preliminary injunction that stops a new U.S. Department of Education Title IX rule. The rule was scheduled to take effect on August 1, but has now been stopped in South Dakota and the five other 8th Circuit states who joined the lawsuit.
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| 07 24, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a coalition of 25 Attorneys General in asking the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to issue an emergency stay on the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recently-released new rule on existing coal-, natural gas- and oil-fired power plants.
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| 07 22, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley joins other Attorney Generals in opposing a Biden Administration proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act.
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| 07 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Saratoga, Wyo., man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting at a South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper during an incident at the 2023 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
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| 07 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a former state Department of Social Services employee has been indicted for stealing an estimated $1.8 million in state and federal funds from the department’s Child Protection Services.
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| 07 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Gillette, Wyo. woman has pleaded guilty to one count of felony Grand Theft by Exploitation for stealing almost $94,000 from the property of another person.
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| 07 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty has joined 21 other Attorneys General in urging Congress to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (“SAVE”) Act.
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| 07 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a resident of Vietnam who is in South Dakota on a student visa has been sentenced to 240 days in prison after earlier pleading guilty to two counts of Possession of Child Pornography.
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| 07 10, 2024 | The final ballot statement for the potential referral of Senate Bill 201 has been released by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office. It was filed with Secretary of State’s Office on Monday, July 8.
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| 07 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Texas couple has been sentenced to a combined 10 years in prison and a fine of $86,000 after being convicted of six combined charges in connection with stealing or attempting to steal the property of another person. All prison time was suspended.
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| 07 03, 2024 | A Watertown man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to two counts of First Degree Rape.
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| 07 03, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the Division of Criminal investigation (DCI), at the request of the Sioux Falls Police Department and Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office, is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred early Wednesday morning, July 3, in Sioux Falls.South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the Division of Criminal investigation (DCI), at the request of the Sioux Falls Police Department and Minnehaha County Sherif Read More |
| 07 03, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley statement on shooting at Saturday’s former President Trump’s Rally in Pennsylvania:
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| 07 02, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces the federal Parole Commission has denied the parole request for Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Read More |
| 07 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley supports the U.S. Supreme Court decision that former President Donald Trump is immune for official acts done while in office, but not necessarily private acts.
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| 07 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns citizens to be cautious when considering purchasing products or services through a door-to-door sale.
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| 07 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Wagner man has pleaded guilty but mentally ill and has been sentenced for threatening two public officials.
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| 06 28, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the application period opens Monday, July 1, for $5 million in grants that will be awarded by the Attorney General’s Office to organizations that assist children who have been abused or neglected, victims of domestic violence, and victims of sexual assault.
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| 06 28, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley praises Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakens regulatory authority of federal government agencies.
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| 06 27, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley will discuss border security during a panel discussion Friday at the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) Conference being held in W. Va.
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| 06 26, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns residents impacted by the flooding in southeast South Dakota to be careful about flood-related scams involving fraudulent home repairs and charity appeals.
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| 06 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Rapid City woman has been ordered to pay $42,000 in restitution after earlier pleading guilty to one count of Grand Theft by Embezzlement.
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| 06 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley recognizes the 21 law enforcement officers from five states who graduated Friday from the two-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) instructor training held at the state’s George S. Mickelson Criminal Justice Center in Pierre.
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| 06 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces Jay Ostrem (Ah-strum) of Centerville was arraigned Thursday in Salem on nine felony counts in the May 27 shooting deaths of three people in Centerville.
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| 06 20, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the First-Degree Murder trial of Joseph Gene Hoek of Sioux Falls will start April 21, 2025. Hoek is charged with First Degree Murder and Aggravated Eluding in the Feb. 2, 2024 death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok.
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| 06 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that he has joined a 24-state coalition urging the courts to deny a Special Prosecutor’s request for a gag order against former President Trump.
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| 06 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that Thursday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to restrict access to mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill, does not impact South Dakota’s current abortion law.
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| 06 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 17 students who will graduate Friday from the state 911 Basic Telecommunicator Certification Course.
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| 06 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a letter sent by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to U.S. House leadership endorsing the Child Exploitation and Artificial Intelligence Expert Commission Act of 2024.
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| 06 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that he and 42 other attorneys general have reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and body powder products that contained talc.
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| 06 06, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that 64-year-old Jay Ostrem (Ah-strum) of Centerville has now been indicted on nine felony counts in the May 27 shooting deaths of three people in Centerville.
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| 06 03, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Sturgis man has been convicted by a Corson County Jury of 11 counts of felony crimes involving five different children.
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| 06 03, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley Monday welcomed 23 officers, including 11 tribal law enforcement officers, to the state’s first-ever tribal enforcement specific training session.
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| 05 31, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Saratoga, Wyo., man has pleaded guilty to shooting at a South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper during an incident at the 2023 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
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| 05 30, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is the guest speaker at Friday’s graduation ceremony for the 190th session of the state Basic Law Enforcement Certification Course in Pierre.
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| 05 28, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a 64-year-old Centerville man has been charged with three counts of First Degree Murder in connection with the shooting deaths of three people Monday night in Centerville.
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| 05 24, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Brandon woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all of that time is suspended, after earlier pleading guilty to one count of Grand Theft By Exploitation.
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| 05 22, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced 13 tribal law enforcement officers, along with another 11 local and state officers, are scheduled to participate in the state’s first-ever tribal law enforcement specific training session starting June 3 in Pierre.
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| 05 22, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a South Dakota Penitentiary Inmate was sentenced Wednesday to an additional 50 years in prison after earlier being convicted on three charges including possession of a weapon and making threats against a correctional officer.
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| 05 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a 20-state Attorney Generals’ lawsuit opposing the Biden Administration’s new environmental standards regarding infrastructure projects.
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| 05 20, 2024 | South Dakotans, Native and Non-Native, deserve and should demand to be safe in their homes, on their streets, and at their places of work. As Attorney General, and as a former US Attorney, State’s Attorney, and Tribal Prosecutor, I do not accept “jurisdiction” as an impediment to the ability and responsibility of law enforcement to collectively protect everyone in South Dakota, on and off reservations.
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| 05 17, 2024 | “The vast majority of Methamphetamine and Fentanyl found in South Dakota originates from our southern border. The cartels are actively engaged in moving these illicit drugs across the southern border which then find their way into our South Dakota communities.
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| 05 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Marion man was convicted Thursday on 46 criminal charges against a child including First Degree Rape Domestic, Aggravated Incest, and Sexual Contact with a Child Under 16 Domestic.
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| 05 16, 2024 | Final ballot explanations for two potential constitutional amendments that were adopted by South Dakota legislators have been released by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
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| 05 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the following statement in observance of Peace Officers Memorial Day, which is today (Wednesday), honoring those officers who have died in the line of duty:
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| 05 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and authorities in Clay and Yankton counties have announced that a 18-year-old Yankton man has been indicted in the fentanyl overdose death of a 15-year-old female from rural Clay County.
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| 05 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that 11 state prison inmates have all pleaded not guilty to a combined 18 felony charges stemming from the March 27-28 disturbances at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
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| 05 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the State Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing including by volunteers calling signatories of the Abortion Rights ballot petitions.
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| 05 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that South Dakota is part of a $10.25 million national settlement with three major wireless companies regarding deceptive and misleading advertising practices.
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| 05 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a San Antonio, Texas woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, after earlier pleading guilty to charges in a 2023 stabbing death in Vermillion.
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| 05 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Huron Police Department are investigating a homicide that occurred Thursday in Huron.
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| 05 08, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is warning South Dakotans again to be watchful for various scams after a Sioux Falls woman lost a reported $58,000 in a computer scam.
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| 05 08, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that an Aberdeen man has been sentenced to a combined 115 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to one count of Sexual Contact with a Child under the Age of Sixteen and 10 counts of Possession of Child Pornography.
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| 05 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley encourages the public to remember the state’s fallen law enforcement officers as the annual South Dakota Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony is held Wednesday in Pierre.
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| 05 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is urging South Dakotans to remain vigilant about the dangers of fentanyl use.
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| 05 03, 2024 | South Dakota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) program is hosting its first-ever awareness and training event Monday in Rapid City.
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| 05 03, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates Roberts County State’s Attorney Dylan D. Kirchmeier for being named as the Prosecutor of the Year by the South Dakota State’s Attorneys Association.
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| 05 02, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) review indicates that Sioux Falls Police Officers were justified in shooting a man who was armed with two knives during an incident April 4, 2024 in Sioux Falls.
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| 04 26, 2024 | South Dakota legislators adopted two potential constitutional amendments during the last two legislative sessions.
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| 04 25, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley encourages people with unneeded prescription medication to safely dispose of it during this Saturday’s National Drug Take Back Day.
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| 04 24, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley Wednesday announced that 11 state prison inmates have now been indicted on a combined 18 felony charges stemming from the March 27-28 disturbances at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
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| 04 23, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley Tuesday announced that 11 inmates will face a combined 18 felony charges stemming from the March 27-28 disturbances at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
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| 04 19, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a Detroit, MI man has been sentenced to 360 days in the Davison County Jail for pleading guilty to the improper disposal of a body in connection with a female who was found deceased March 11, 2024 in Mitchell.
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| 04 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced a South Dakota Penitentiary Inmate was convicted Thursday on three charges including possession of a weapon and making threats against a correctional officer.
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| 04 16, 2024 | The South Dakota Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Training Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to revoke the law enforcement certification of Mellette County Sheriff Mike Blom effective immediately for conduct unbecoming a law enforcement officer.
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| 04 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Custer County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a homicide that took place Friday, April 12, in Custer County.
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| 04 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney Marty Jackley has announced that a Texas couple has been convicted of a combined six charges in connection with stealing or attempting to steal the property of another person.
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| 04 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a 21-year-old man from Romania was sentenced to six months in the Clay County Jail after earlier pleading guilty to Second Degree Rape and is now in the process of deportation with federal authorities.
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| 04 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Mitchell, S.D., woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with eight years suspended, after earlier pleading guilty to one count of Sexual Contact With a Person Incapable of Consent.
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| 04 05, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is praising a federal judge’s decision to block a proposed federal rule on greenhouse gas emissions as requested by Attorney General Jackley and 20 other Attorneys General.
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| 04 05, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Davison County State’s Attorney Jim Miskimins have announced that based on a further review of the evidence, including the forensic pathologist autopsy results, the appropriate charge in South Dakota is Improper Disposal of a Body in connection with a female that was found deceased March 11, 2024 in Mitchell.
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| 04 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the Division of Criminal investigation (DCI), at the request of the Sioux Falls Police Department, is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Thursday, April 4, 2024 in Sioux Falls.
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| 03 28, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has issued the following statement regarding Wednesday’s disturbance at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls:
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| 03 27, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is part of a coalition of 21 Attorneys General requesting that Congress fix language in the 2018 Farm Bill that has been used by “bad actors” to market unregulated intoxicating hemp.
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| 03 27, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Parker, S.D., man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with 14 years suspended after earlier pleading guilty to one count of First Degree Manslaughter in the 2022 death of an infant.
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| 03 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is praising approval of the fiscal year 2025 state general fund budget that includes funds for the Attorney General’s Office to use for a new Digital Investigation Unit, cybersecurity services initiative, and grants to organizations that assist abused children.
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| 03 18, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a group of 26 Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Illinois’ ban of AR-15 rifles.
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| 03 15, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Pierre man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after earlier being convicted for assaulting and threatening correctional officers at the Hughes County Jail.
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| 03 14, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Mitchell law enforcement announce that a person has been arrested in the investigation of a female that was found this week in Mitchell.
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| 03 13, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that the state has filed its notice to seek the death penalty in the First Degree Murder case against Joseph Gene Hoek of Sioux Falls for the Feb. 2 death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok.
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| 03 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has confirmed that the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) was asked by Colorado authorities to conduct the criminal investigation into a former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist who is accused of mishandling DNA testing in at least 650 cases.
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| 03 11, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a coalition of 43 Attorneys General in requesting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to update and strengthen the rules technology companies must follow under the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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| 03 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 20 students who graduate Friday from the state Basic Telecommunicator Certification Course.
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| 03 06, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 40 other Attorneys General in asking social media company Meta to take action to protect consumers whose Facebook and Instagram accounts have been compromised.
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| 03 06, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a White River man has been convicted on three charges, including two counts of rape, for an incident that occurred March 5, 2023.
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| 03 05, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that Jeremiah Peacemaker of Watertown has been found not guilty of First Degree Murder in the August, 2020 death of Kendra Owen of Watertown.
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| 03 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is urging South Dakota consumers to take time, especially during this week’s National Consumer Protection Week observance, to safeguard their personal and financial information.
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| 03 04, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is praising Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows former President Donald Trump to appear on the ballot for the Colorado state Presidential Primary election.
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| 03 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that the next court appearance for Joseph Gene Hoek (Hook) of Sioux Falls, who has been charged in the Feb. 2 death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorock (Pro-Rock), has been moved from Brookings to Flandreau, but will be held as originally scheduled at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 13 in the Moody County Courthouse.
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| 02 27, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 42 students who will graduate Friday from the state Basic Law Enforcement Certification Course in Pierre.
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| 02 23, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that all of the office’s legislative bills have now passed the state Legislature in some form and have been signed by Gov. Kristi Noem.
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| 02 21, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that 14 jurors were chosen Wednesday for the murder trial of Jeremiah Peacemaker of Watertown.
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| 02 20, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a coalition of 39 Attorneys General in urging Congress to reform the current practices conducted by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
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| 02 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is praising the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s decision to ban Artificial Intelligence-generated robocalls.
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| 02 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is warning the public to be careful about telephone calls they receive threatening to take away a person’s Medicare benefits.
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| 02 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a Yankton man has been sentenced to 85 years in prison after he had earlier pled guilty to First Degree Manslaughter in connection to a stabbing death that occurred May 22, 2023 in Yankton.
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| 02 16, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 21 Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief that supports former President Donald Trump’s stay request regarding presidential immunity to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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| 02 13, 2024 | “The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office is saddened to hear of the passing of Union County Sheriff Dan Limoges. Sheriff Limoges was a law enforcement officer for almost 40 years, and Union County Sheriff for more than 30. He was a strong public servant who was dedicated to his county and his profession. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and agency during this time.”
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| 02 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is thanking Gov. Kristi Noem and state legislators for their support of Senate Bill 79, which includes the AG Office’s effort to make Artificial Intelligence-child generated porn a crime.
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| 02 12, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is praising the partnership that has led to the passage and signing of House Bill 1028 which makes the use and possession of Xylazine (otherwise referred to as “the zombie drug” a crime outside of veterinarian purposes).
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| 02 09, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that a Moody County Grand Jury has indicted Joseph Gene Hoek (Hook) of Sioux Falls on charges of First Degree Murder and Aggravated Eluding for the death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok (Pro-Rock).
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| 02 09, 2024 | Governor Kristi Noem, with the support of the Legislature and the Attorney General, requested the South Dakota Supreme Court to provide further interpretation and clarification of Article III, Section 12 of the South Dakota Constitution, which prohibits legislators from having an interest in certain public contracts. The Supreme Court has issued a very thorough decision clarifying and detailing the scope of Article III, Section 12.
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| 02 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 15 other Attorneys General in opposing measures in a proposed “border bill” scheduled to be heard in the U.S. Senate.
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| 02 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the overall number of criminal offenses reported statewide in 2023 was down 2.57 percent compared to 2022.
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| 02 07, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a bipartisan group of 41 Attorneys General in urging Congress to authorize 2024 bridge funding for the federal Crime Victims Fund (VOCA Fund).
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| 02 06, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney Marty Jackley and other Attorneys General on the nationwide Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force have written to a company that allegedly sent New Hampshire residents scam election robocalls, with the use of artificial intelligence, during the New Hampshire primary election.
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| 02 05, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that Joseph Gene Hoek (Hook) of Sioux Falls has been charged with First Degree Murder and Aggravated Eluding for the death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok (Pro-Rock) last Friday afternoon.
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| 02 05, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that the first of the five legislative bills introduced this session by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office has now been signed into law by Governor Kristi Noem.
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| 02 03, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has confirmed that Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok (Pro-rock) was killed in the line of duty Friday afternoon in Moody County.
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| 02 02, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Pierre man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, with six years suspended, stemming from a 2023 standoff involving law enforcement at a residence in northern Hughes County.
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| 02 02, 2024 | Two more South Dakota Attorney General legislative bills were approved Friday by different state legislative committees.
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| 02 01, 2024 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley Thursday presented the Attorney General’s Office’s proposed $38.8 million fiscal year 2025 budget which includes funds to create a new Digital Investigation Unit and to hire an additional forensic scientist.
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| 01 31, 2024 | Two South Dakota Attorney General legislative bills were approved Wednesday by the State House Judiciary Committee.
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| 01 29, 2024 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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