# South Dakota

Every law and rule change USCLI tracks for South Dakota, across the professions, on one page. Each entry links to its full write-up and official sources.

Source: https://uscli.org/states/south-dakota

## Licensing Ledger

South Dakota has no state private investigator license; the Attorney General’s office says only a sales tax license is required. Laws affecting investigators have changed: 2024 and 2026 laws restrict drone use, and 2026 laws made publishing an officer’s home address with intent to cause fear a felony, rewrote the invasion-of-privacy recording crime, and raised the driving record fee to $7.

[Full South Dakota page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota) (9 entries).

- Jul 1, 2026 — **[Felony to publish an officer’s home address with intent to cause fear](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#hb-1298)** — HB 1298 (2026), SL 2026 ch 98 — Makes it a Class 6 felony to publish electronically the home address, date of birth, or Social Security number of a judicial or law enforcement officer without the officer’s consent and with intent to place the officer or family in reasonable fear of death…
- Jul 1, 2026 — **[Invasion-of-privacy recording crime rewritten](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-41)** — SB 41 (2026), SL 2026 ch 104 — Amends SDCL 22-21-4, which already made it a crime to photograph or record a person nude, under or through clothing, or in a sexual act. The act removes the element that the victim be in circumstances with a reasonable expectation of privacy, broadens the…
- Jul 1, 2026 — **[Judges’ and officers’ contact details withheld from voter files](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#hb-1084)** — HB 1084 (2026), SL 2026 ch 64 — Makes the home address, personal phone, and personal email of current or retired judges and law enforcement officers non-public in voter registration files (SDCL 12-4-9.3); previously only judges’ home addresses were withheld.
- Jul 1, 2026 — **[Statewide voter file posted weekly; commercial use still barred](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#voter-file)** — HB 1062 (2025), SL 2025 ch 60; SB 214 (2026), SL 2026 ch 66 — Requires the Secretary of State to post the complete statewide voter registration file every week, with a free five-year archive (SDCL 12-4-37, 12-4-37.1). Voter-file information still may not be used for any commercial purpose, a Class 1 misdemeanor…
- Jul 1, 2026 — **[Driving record abstract fee rises to $7](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-11)** — SB 11 (2026), SL 2026 ch 140 — Raises the fee for a certified three-year driving record abstract from $5 to $7 (SDCL 32-35-101).

## Officer Ledger

The Officer Ledger has not published a South Dakota page yet. [See the states it covers](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker).

## Forensic Ledger

The Forensic Ledger has not published a South Dakota page yet. [See the states it covers](https://uscli.org/forensic-science-tracker).