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Clergy reporting, interpretive services and more | Today's Stories | Feb. 11

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On today's update...

A committee kills a bill designating Clergy members, such as rabbis and priests, as mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.

Lawmakers advance a bill requiring state government to pick up the bill on interpretive services during a contested administrative case.

A bill seeking to strengthen South Dakota’s conflict of interest and corruption laws dies in committee. While most described it as well-intended, criticism ranged from redundancies to overstepping the line of legislative authority.

And more...

Jackson Dircks is a Freeburg, Illinois, native. He received a degree from Augustana University in English and Journalism. He started at SDPB as an intern before transitioning to a politics, business and everything in-between reporter based in Sioux Falls.

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