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John Hult

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · By John Hult / South Dakota Searchlight Today at 11:18 AM

    Advisory group suggests adding member of the public to South Dakota Open Meetings Commission (opens the original)

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    A member of the public could have a vote on South Dakota’s Open Meetings Commission if the state’s incoming attorney general, legislators and governor back a proposal recommended Thursday by an open meetings task force. The commission is a five-member board established in 2004 to hear complaints about alleged violations of open meetings laws and issue censures to public bodies that have broken them. Per state law, its five members have always been state’s attorneys or deputy state’s attorneys, a

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · By John Hult / South Dakota Searchlight September 23, 2026 at 1:24 PM

    Budget outline offers glimpse into potential price of adding trial work for state public defender (opens the original)

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    It could cost up to $697,000 a year for South Dakota’s state-level public defender to begin taking on trial-level cases in the state, an advisory committee heard on Wednesday. The Office of Indigent Legal Services opened in 2024 with the hiring of a director, and expanded the following year to add four additional attorneys and a paralegal. At the moment, the office handles appeals in criminal and abuse and neglect cases. South Dakota was among the last states in the U.S. to saddle counties with

  3. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · John Hult

    Task force: Regional ambulance hubs for South Dakota will take years to establish (opens the original)

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    (SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT) - Regionalizing ambulance services would preserve them for rural areas and allow the state to guarantee a basic level of coverage, but the state would still need to pick up some of the cost of that guarantee, members of a legislative task force said this week. What regional service looks like and what the state might have to pay to prop it up are still open questions. Those were the takeaways from Monday’s meeting of the Emergency Medical Services Funding Task Force in

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · John Hult

    Pardon request 25 years after sex offense sparks discussion on purpose of clemency in South Dakota (opens the original)

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    (SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT) - A request for clemency from a man convicted of a sex offense 25 years ago spurred a discussion on the purpose of a pardon Wednesday at a meeting of the South Dakota board empowered to make recommendations to the governor. The 57-year-old who applied for the pardon hasn’t been charged with a crime since he was convicted of sexual contact with a minor. He wants to have the 2001 offense cleared from his record, he said in his application, because he felt his actions sin

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · John Hult

    Fewer South Dakota middle-schoolers trying nicotine, but more using it regularly (opens the original)

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    (SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT) - Fewer South Dakota middle-schoolers are trying nicotine than they were two years ago, but slightly more of them are using it every day. Nicotine use rates for Native American kids in grades six through eight are higher than they are for non-Natives, meanwhile, and South Dakota kids overall are slightly more likely on average than their peers elsewhere in the U.S. to use cigarettes. The findings from 2025 come from the recently released Youth Tobacco Survey from the S

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