February 5, 2022
Native groups push for funding new position in SD AG’s office
Author: Rich Keller
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Some Native American groups are pushing for funding for a new position in the South Dakota attorney general’s office.
A bipartisan group of South Dakota House lawmakers is giving their recommendation to a pair of proposals to fund a position in the attorney general’s office to coordinate law enforcement investigations into the disappearance and murder of Indigenous people.
The Legislature last year created the position and pushed Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg to work with ...