AG appoints panel for victim notification program
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has appointed a panel to oversee the creation of a new program that will provide information to crime victims.
• The crime victim program was part of a sweeping measure passed by the South Dakota Legislature to reform the criminal justice system by treating more nonviolent offenders through intensive probation, parole and other programs outside prison walls.
• The Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification program will provide victims of crime with information about those who committed crimes against them. That information may include important dates of court proceedings, as well as changes in bond conditions or release from custody.
• Law enforcement officers, court and prison officials, and victim's advocates will serve on the advisory commission to set up the notification system.
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Capitol flags at half-staff for former legislator
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has ordered flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff Wednesday for the funeral of former state legislator Stanley A. Johnson.
• Johnson died Saturday at the age of 88.
• He served in the House of Representatives from 1968 to 1977. Gov. Nils Boe appointed Johnson to fill a vacancy in the district, and he was re-elected to serve three more terms.
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SDSU student appointed to Board of Regents
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed a South Dakota State University student to the Board of Regents.
• Daugaard appointed incoming-sophomore Joe Schartz to serve a two-year term as a member of the board. He is one of the board's nine voting members.
• Schartz is double majoring in journalism and agriculture business and minoring in political science. He serves as a student association senator at SDSU and is a member of the Journalism Student Advisory Board and the Honors Dean's Student (Continued on page 19)
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