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Commission takes aim at local governments in first meeting since 2020

Open Meetings Commission restarted by Attorney General Marty Jackley

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Austin Goss
Nov 19, 2024
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Members of the Open Meetings Commission meet in Pierre Monday. (Austin Goss/The Dakota Scout)

PIERRE — A newly refurbished and reinvigorated Open Meetings Commission delivered decisions Monday aimed at correcting local governments that had violated open meeting laws since they last met.

The five-member board, made up of state’s attorneys from across South Dakota, delivered five separate wrist slaps to four different government entities across the state that had illegally conducted business since the commission last met last met.

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