Executive Board To Study Domestic Violence During Summer Session

The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature has decided that domestic violence should be the topic of a summer study. The board met in Pierre to lay out the interim agenda.  Representative Mike Stevens of Yankton, an attorney, and a member of the Judiciary Committee said they had several discussions about domestic violence. He says right now, the law is pretty black and white…

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Stevens says domestic situations are also changing, and the law doesn’t always reflect that…

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 Stevens says there should be talk about fine tuning domestic violence laws…

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 The membership and timeline of the committee will be determined later this spring