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Senate approves law requiring state supervisors to report suspected crimes, nonreporting criminalized
Summary
The South Dakota Senate passed Senate Bill 62, creating a duty for state supervisors to report suspected crimes and improper governmental conduct to the attorney general and auditor general and making knowing failure to report a class 6 felony.
Senate Bill 62 passed the South Dakota Senate after extended floor debate, creating a legal duty for state government supervisors to report crimes and improper governmental conduct to the attorney general and the auditor general and criminalizing knowing failures to report.
The bill, as explained on the floor by Senator Melhoff, requires supervisors in state government "to report crimes and improper conduct to the attorney general and the auditor general when they learn about it," and makes a knowing failure to report a class 6 felony. "This responsibility only applies to supervisors," Melhoff…
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