| 04 01, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Yankton man has been sentenced to Life in Prison after pleading guilty but mentally ill to Second Degree Murder in connection with the 2025 murder of a Yankton woman.
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| 04 01, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), at the request of the Sioux Falls Police Department, is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Tuesday, March 31, in Sioux Falls.
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| 03 31, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley joins 40 other Attorneys General in urging Congress to pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would classify Xylazine as a federally controlled substance and would help law enforcement stop the spread of the drug.
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| 03 31, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the owner of a Pierre smoke shop has pleaded guilty to one felony count of Possession of a Controlled Substance and one misdemeanor count of Possession of a Substance for Purpose of Intoxication.
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| 03 27, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Parkston man has been sentenced to six years in prison after he was earlier convicted by a Yankton jury on charges of Third Degree Rape and Taking Pictures without Consent.
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| 03 26, 2026 | United States Attorney Ron Parsons and South Dakota Attorney General Marty J. Jackley held a joint press conference at the Sioux Falls Police Department on Thursday, March 26, 2026, to highlight new federal and state initiatives to combat the serious problem of fraud committed against state and federal governments and government programs.
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| 03 25, 2026 | Attorney General Marty Jackley announces significant accomplishments by the Attorney General’s Criminal Division throughout the month of March, highlighting a series of major jury trials, homicide verdicts, and statewide collaboration among prosecutors and law enforcement.
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| 03 23, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s bill to protect personal genetic data was signed Monday by Gov. Larry Rhoden, meaning all 10 of the Attorney General’s legislative measures this session have been signed into law.
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| 03 22, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), at the request of the South Dakota Highway Patrol, is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Saturday, March 21, in Box Elder.
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| 03 20, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Centerville man has been found guilty by a McCook County Jury, for a 2024 triple homicide that occurred in Centerville, SD.
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| 03 19, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the South Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions of Kelly D. Warfield for simple assault against a Department of Corrections correctional officer and intentional damage to property, stemming from a 2021 incident at the Mike Durfee State Prison.
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| 03 18, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley joins the America First Policy Institute’s Attorneys General Council in urging U.S. Senate leadership to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
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| 03 18, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Union County jury has convicted a Sioux Falls man of multiple felony counts, including three counts of Attempted First-Degree Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer, stemming from an April 1, 2025 incident near Beresford.
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| 03 17, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the final defendant convicted in a 2022 double homicide in Rapid City has been sentenced to life in prison.
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| 03 17, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a bipartisan group of 13 Attorneys General in suing OneMain Financial, Inc. for illegally misleading its customers and trapping tens of thousands of borrowers in expensive loans with hidden costs.
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| 03 16, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces the state will receive $677,920 as part of the state’s settlement in the Live Nation and Ticketmaster anti-trust suit, and better entertainment ticket pricing with competition.
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| 03 16, 2026 | Four more bills in South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s legislative package were signed into law Monday by Gov. Larry Rhoden.
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| 03 15, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a South Dakota State Penitentiary inmate has been convicted of two counts of Aggravated Assault and one count of First-Degree Robbery.
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| 03 13, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley commends the South Dakota Supreme Court decision affirming multiple felony convictions against Kolten Bradford Ware arising from several criminal cases in Lawrence and Meade counties.
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| 03 12, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Huron Middle School staff member has now been indicted on 20 total Child Pornography charges following an investigation by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Huron Police Department.
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| 03 12, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that two of three defendants convicted in a 2022 double homicide in Rapid City have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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| 03 12, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the South Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions of Hazen Hunter Winckler, rejecting claims that the State lacked jurisdiction over criminal offenses occurring at the Charles Mix County courthouse and jail.
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| 03 12, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that the South Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions of Christian Elliott Clifford following a jury trial in Minnehaha County.
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| 03 11, 2026 | Senate Bill 17, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s election integrity bill, was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Larry Rhoden.
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| 03 09, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces South Dakota has settled its lawsuit with Mayday Health, and the New York company has agreed to remove any signs with deceptive and unlawful advertisements of abortion pills in the state now and in the future.
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| 03 04, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that Friday’s graduation of the current Basic Law Enforcement Certification class is not only a ceremony for the students, but also a celebration of the 200th class to complete the program.
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| 03 04, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley encourages consumers to remain vigilant against scammers who impersonate government agencies, law enforcement or businesses.
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| 03 04, 2026 | South Dakota’s House of Representatives has approved Attorney General Marty Jackley’s final seven legislative bills, meaning that all 10 of the Attorney General’s bills proposed this session are one step closer to becoming law.
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| 03 02, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s Election Integrity bill was unanimously approved Monday by the State House Affairs Committee.
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| 03 02, 2026 | Six bills proposed by South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley that include protecting children from online predators and strengthen penalties for bringing illegal substances into the state’s prisons were approved Monday by the State House Judiciary Committee.
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| 02 27, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley applauds Meta and Instagram for doing the right thing in implementing preventive efforts where parents using Instagram's child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on that platform.
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| 02 26, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a circuit court’s decision to commit a juvenile to the State Department of Corrections after the juvenile made a terrorist threat at a school.
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| 02 24, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Pennington County State’s Attorney Lara Roetzel announce that three Rapid City individuals have been convicted by a Pennington County jury in connection with the Aug. 20, 2022 double homicide of Joseph Standing Bear, 29, of Norris and Petan Milk, 37, of Rapid City.
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| 02 20, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a South Dakota Circuit Court has ruled that the state’s lawsuit against Mayday Health over allegations of deceptive and unlawful abortion pill ads can move forward and ordered that a trial date be set.
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| 02 19, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the overall number of reported criminal offenses statewide in 2025 decreased by 6.03 percent compared to 2024.
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| 02 18, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley Wednesday testified in opposition to House Bill 1268 which would have repealed the death penalty in South Dakota.
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| 02 18, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 19 recruits who graduate this Thursday night from the regional Law Enforcement Training program held in Sioux Falls.
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| 02 17, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined a coalition of 22 Attorneys General who support Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that expanded access to abortion drugs through the mail and telehealth, despite contrary state laws.
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| 02 10, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley encourages the public to observe Safer Internet Day which is today (Tuesday, Feb. 10).
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| 02 07, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that one individual has been arrested in connection with an incident reported early Friday morning in Wagner.
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| 02 07, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley congratulates the 23 students who graduate today (Friday) from the state Basic Telecommunicator Certification Course.
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| 02 05, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley commends the South Dakota Supreme Court for reversing a circuit court judge’s decision that allowed a psychiatrist to testify about “false confessions” because his opinions were not reliable or helpful enough under the rules for expert evidence.
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| 02 04, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has released his Public Integrity Report to the Government Operations & Audit Committee. The report details the work of the Public Integrity Unit in 2025, which reviewed 47 unique reports of misconduct by state government employees, resulting in 14 criminal investigations and four state employees being criminally charged. All four cases are still pending.
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| 02 04, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s three government transparency bills cleared their final legislative hurdle Wednesday when they were unanimously approved by the full State House of Representatives.
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| 02 03, 2026 | All three of South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s government transparency bills were unanimously approved Tuesday by the State House Local Government Committee.
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| 02 02, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and a coalition of 48 states and territories announce settlements with Lannett Company, Inc. (“Lannett”) and Bausch Health US, LLC and Bausch Health Americas, Inc. (“Bausch”), totaling $17.85 million to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous gene Read More |
| 01 30, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Watertown man has been convicted of three charges in connection with an officer involved shooting that occurred Dec. 5, 2024 in the parking lot of the Yankton High School.
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| 01 29, 2026 | South Dakota State Senators Thursday approved Attorney General Marty Jackley’s bill that enhances the penalties for ingestion, possession, possession with intent to deliver, and delivery of a controlled substance in a state correctional facility.
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| 01 27, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces he will personally appear in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Thursday to argue that South Dakota state court, not New York federal court, should rule on whether Mayday Health’s advertisements in South Dakota are untruthful and deceptive including whether it has the right to advertise the sale of abortion pills in South Dakota that the State Legislature has banned.
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| 01 26, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that 11 people, including seven prison inmates, three private citizens, and one person who was contracted by the state at the time, have been indicted in connection with a November 2025 drug overdose death of an inmate at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield.
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| 01 23, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley Friday presented the office’s proposed $41.7 million fiscal year 2027 budget which includes funds for the Appellate, Criminal, and Civil Attorney Divisions, the Consumer Protection Division, the Division of Criminal Investigation, the State Forensic Lab, and Law Enforcement Training to the Legislative Appropriations Committee.
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| 01 23, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that an Aberdeen man has been sentenced to prison after he became the first person charged under a new 2024 South Dakota law that made computer-generated child pornography a crime.
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| 01 23, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s bill that would give the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) another tool to identify where child pornographic materials are being disseminated within the state unanimously passed the State Senate Friday.
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| 01 22, 2026 | Six of South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s legislative bills, ranging from government transparency to election integrity to protection from illegal drugs and the theft of personal genetic data, received final approval from the State Senate Thursday.
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| 01 21, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s legislative bills that would strengthen election integrity and open meeting transparency received unanimous approval Wednesday from the Senate State Affairs Committee.
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| 01 20, 2026 | State Senate Judiciary Committee members unanimously approved three more of South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s legislative bills Tuesday morning, sending them to the full Senate for further consideration.
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| 01 16, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s two bills that protect citizens from AI-generated pornography and allows for the seizure of cryptocurrency as part of criminal investigations were both unanimously approved by the full State Senate Friday afternoon.
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| 01 15, 2026 | Friday’s scheduled court hearing on South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s motion to stop Mayday Health from deceptively advertising the sale of abortion pills and abortion services in South Dakota has been postponed at the request of Mayday Health.
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| 01 15, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley thanks the State Senate Judiciary Committee for passing three of his legislative bills during a hearing Thursday (today) at the State Capitol.
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| 01 14, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the former equestrian coach at South Dakota State University has been indicted on one felony count of Grand Theft for using SDSU and taxpayer resources for her personal use.
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| 01 13, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Charles Mix County State’s Attorney Steve Cotton announce that a Wagner man has been arrested in connection with a fatal vehicle-related incident that occurred Saturday night near Wagner.
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| 01 13, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has issued an official opinion stating that childcare and security expenses directly incurred due to campaign activity or holding office are permissible expenditures from a candidate’s campaign fund under current law and subject to statutory restrictions.
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| 01 09, 2026 | Next week’s court hearing on South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley’s motion to stop Mayday Health from deceptively advertising the sale of abortion pills and abortion services in South Dakota has been rescheduled.
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| 01 08, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces an Aberdeen man has now been indicted on 85 total felony and misdemeanor counts that include Solicitation of Second Degree Rape, Possession of Child Pornography, Dissemination of Image or Recording – Victim Seventeen Years of Age or Under, and Unlawful Use of a Computer System while he was a former employee of the State Driver Licensing Office in Aberdeen.
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| 01 07, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the 10 legislative bills he will propose in this year’s session have now been officially filed by the state Legislative Research Council.
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| 01 06, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley plans to introduce legislation in the 2026 South Dakota Legislature that would allow law enforcement to seize digital Cryptocurrency accounts that are part of criminal investigations.
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| 01 06, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Spearfish woman has been arraigned on four felony counts and one misdemeanor count of falsifying investigative reports while an employee of the South Dakota Department of Social Services’ Child Protective Services.
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| 01 05, 2026 | Legislation aimed at protecting children from internet crimes and human trafficking, along with safeguarding consumers’ genetic privacy, will be among two bills Attorney General Marty Jackley introduces during the 2026 legislative session.
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| 01 03, 2026 | South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has issued the following statement in support of President Trump’s action in Venezuela Saturday:
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