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Jackley told the committee the AG's total FY26 request is $41,167,000 and asked for two additional FTEs: a consumer protection investigator to handle a rise in consumer contacts (about 68,000 contacts last year, up from 64,000) and an attorney to handle prosecutions arising in Department of Corrections facilities. \"I'm asking you for a 6th [consumer investigator],\" he said, and described 117 prosecutions linked to the penitentiary that he said now fall to the attorney general under statute.

On litigation, Jackley described multi‑state actions against large tech companies and his office's posture on discovery: \"We were letting the Meta lawyers control discovery, and we should not do that. We are the plaintiff; we should be controlling the discovery,\" he told the committee and said he replaced a prior special assistant handling the case and has the civil chief overseeing it. He said 41 state attorneys general are involved in the Meta matter and that the office is monitoring the federal TikTok issue as well.

Jackley reviewed public‑corruption and violent‑crime prosecutions the office is managing, including a still‑pending trial involving allegations of approximately $1.8 million taken from Department of Social Services programs and a death‑penalty notice filed in a homicide case he expected to try this spring or summer.

He reported growing controlled‑substance workload: methamphetamine and fentanyl remain major enforcement priorities, with the office reporting thousands of meth arrests and hundreds of fentanyl arrests in 2024. The AG highlighted a high‑profile Rapid City sentence in a fentanyl distribution case and said the state continues to see large seizures.

The office described victim services, forensic lab workload and concerns about reduced federal VOCA victim‑service funding. Jackley noted the DOJ and FBI coordinate on some lab work with the state's forensic lab and asked the committee to consider federal or other funding sources for a proposed bomb‑tech expansion should federal authorities assign higher protective responsibilities for visits by the U.S. secretary of homeland security.

Jackley also addressed tobacco and opioid settlements and said the state has received securitized tobacco revenues historically and that the state is in arbitration for several years; he said the state's pharmaceutical litigation yielded a potential $78.6 million settlement figure on paper and reiterated his view that settlement proceeds should be used for treatment and prevention rather than stockpiled.

He closed by asking the committee to consider the specific FY26 items — the two FTEs and other spending‑authority requests — and offered to provide further documentation on litigation, settlement accounting and forensic lab capacity.

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\"The commission on Indigent Legal Services was created by the legislature last year in House Bill 1057 directly in response to two things: a constitutional obligation, and second, a vision from the chief justice,\" commission chair Neil Fulton said, citing the Sixth Amendment as the constitutional basis for providing counsel to those who cannot afford it.

Fulton said the commission's first operational step is a staffed statewide appellate office intended to produce efficiencies and higher‑quality appeals work. Chris Miles, the newly hired chief defender, told the committee the office projects a $2.1 million savings to counties by centralizing appellate functions and an estimated $600,000 savings to state taxpayers through reduced duplication and standardized protocols.

Miles said two experienced criminal defense attorneys have been hired and the office planned to begin taking direct appeals from the 2nd and 7th judicial circuits in February. \"We do intend on taking cases here come February,\" he told the panel, and said the office will develop rules for attorney qualification, provide training to appointed private counsel, and staff regional satellite offices as capacity grows.

Fulton and Miles asked the committee to approve a flat budget request for FY26 and requested a modest reallocation — about $35,000 — from operating expenses into personal services to make salary offers more competitive for early hires. Fulton said the commission received a one‑time $3 million distribution to counties in the prior year to relieve county burdens and that the governor included FY26 funding for the commission in the executive budget.

Committee members asked about timelines and potential expansion. Miles said the office will start with appellate work and gradually expand regional capacity and training support for trial‑level appointed counsel. Fulton described the work as long‑term: \"planting trees, not flowers,\" he said, noting the effort will take years to fully implement but should strengthen Sixth Amendment representation across South Dakota.

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The request matters because UJS officials said staffing and IT form almost 90% of their budget and directly affect judges’ ability to handle rising case complexity, especially filings from self‑represented litigants. \"We have only 1 FTE request. That's a staff attorney position in the 3rd Circuit,\" Chief Justice Steve Jensen said, describing judges' need for experienced legal research help to process lengthy pro se filings.

Santazon told the committee the 3rd Circuit covers 13 counties with eight judges and a research ratio that he described as ","South Dakota Unified Judicial System officials told the Joint Appropriations Committee they are requesting one staff attorney for the 3rd Circuit, space for a Sioux Falls one‑stop office and increased authority from the court automation fund to prepare for a new probation supervision system and IT licensing costs.","actionData","errors"]

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