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• Thirty-two-year-old Nathan Janis, from the city of Rosebud, is accused of receiving money through the tribal child care services program to which he was not entitled. Thirty-nine-year-old Barbara Duysak, of Rosebud, faces a similar accusation. She worked as an administrator for the program at the time.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Janis and Duysak both face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when they are sentenced on Oct. 1.
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• Less than two years after the state closed 15 driver's licensing bureaus in South Dakota, Minnehaha County commissioners have asked the Department of Public Safety to find a different location for its exam center in the courthouse.
• The site has become so busy that lines create a distraction to other business going on in the courthouse, and more cars are clogging up the parking lot. In addition, the exam office is understaffed, something the state is working on correcting.
• This latest concern is good reason for the state to look not only at where it hopes to put that Sioux Falls exam site, but also to review whether it has the right locations or need to consider other changes in the state. In October 2009, the state closed 15 exam offices, including four in the general Sioux Falls area. Is traffic from those offices being felt enough in Sioux Falls that it has made the wait time to renew a license unbearable?
• The state cited tight budget times as one of the reasons for closing those offices. Essentially, the state could save money with fewer sites. With an improvement in state budgets, is that still a good enough reason to leave those offices closed?
• While the state continually evaluates its system, it's time for a broad evaluation of what the state licensing exam centers should look like. Are citizens being served in the best way possible? Are exam stations in the locations? In the process, the Department of Public Safety could look at whether there are ways to streamline any of its processes, especially for the people seeking a simple renewal.
• Minnehaha County commissioners have voted to let the public safety department's lease expire the end of September but allow the department to continue to operate there until an alternative location is found. In that process, it seems prudent to make sure public concerns about lines and lengthy waits are considered and that the entire system gets a big-picture look focused on ways to best serve the state's

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