Attorney General Marty Jackley is describing four issues that he is proposing for the legislative package of 2016:

  1. Strengthening Human Trafficking Forfeiture laws

State, local and federal law enforcement officers continue to remove sexual predators from our communities during our joint law enforcement operations and investigations. Predators convicted of human trafficking and related sex crimes whether prosecuted by state or federal authorities should not keep either their profits or assets used to harm young women and children. Their profits and assets used to commit these sex crimes should go to help victims and support further law enforcement operations saving taxpayer monies.

 

  1. Improving Sex Offender Registry

    South Dakota is a national leader in maintaining a sex offender registry that helps parents and grandparents make informed decisions to better protect children. This proposed legislation will expand these protections further with our tribal partners and will assist registrants in meeting their compliance requirements.

  1. Addressing Vehicular Homicide, as Jackley reflects on a recent case:

While it is difficult to place a value on the loss of a human life, serving only a 4.5 year sentence for the brutal vehicular homicide of another human being should carry with it more significance and deterrent value to better protect the public.

  1. Protecting fetal body parts from for-profit sale in South Dakota.

It is my hope that all South Dakotans, whether pro-life or pro-choice, would support limiting and deterring the knowing and for-profit sale or transfer of fetal body parts and tissue in our state. It is my further hope that when the law prohibits specified conduct that we are clear as to what the penalty is when the law is not followed.

 

 

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