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meetings law if official business is discussed.
• South Dakota's open meetings law requires state and local boards and commissions to give notice of a meeting and its agenda at least 24 hours in advance. Those meetings can be closed to the public only if the discussions are about personnel is

sues, student performance, litigation or contracts, employee contract negotiations, pricing strategies by publicly owned businesses, and certain economic development matters.
• Dave Bordewyk, general manager of the South Dakota Newspaper Association and a task force member, said the Legislature might be ready to accept some of the defeated proposals if some changes are made in the bills.
• "With the bills that failed, we learned some things in their failure as they were going down that will be helpful in bringing them back," Bordewyk said.
• The bill clarifying that police logs and mug shots can be made public was defeated because defense attorneys said putting mug shots on television, the Internet or newspapers could preju

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