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Pennington County's state prosecutor leads required annual review of open-meetings rules
Summary
Tyler Sobczak of the State's Attorney's Office led the commission through the statutorily required annual review of South Dakota's open-meetings laws (SDCL 1-25-13), answering commissioners' questions on teleconferencing, executive sessions, and email/ex parte communications and noting enforcement options.
Tyler Sobczak, a senior attorney in the Pennington County State's Attorney's Office, presented the county's annual review of South Dakota's open-meetings requirements on Feb. 17, as required by a 2025 change to state law. Sobczak cited the statute requiring annual review (SDCL 1-25-13) and guided commissioners through the attorney general's pamphlet "Conducting the Public's Business in Public," with a focus on notice rules, recording, executive-session procedure and the referral process for alleged violations.
The presentation stressed that official meetings…
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