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South Dakota
South Dakota Codified Laws section 22-24-55, public school duty to limit minors' access to obscene materials and to adopt and publish a local policy (2024 House Bill 1197)
In force since .
An education rule binding government bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- No
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- This section binds each public school in the state, acting through its school board, and names no duty for an online service or an app developer (SDCL 22-24-55).
- Each public school in the state must equip each public access computer with software that will limit minors' ability to gain access to obscene matter or materials, as defined by SDCL 22-24-27, or purchase internet connectivity from an internet service provider that provides filter services to limit access to obscene materials (SDCL 22-24-55(1)).
- Each public school in the state must develop and implement, by , a local policy that establishes measures to restrict minors from accessing obscene matter or materials (SDCL 22-24-55(2)).
- The policy must allow an individual to appeal to the school board to determine whether any matter or material is obscene, and a school board determination is subject to judicial review in a court of competent jurisdiction (SDCL 22-24-55(2)).
- The school board must publish the policy on the school district's website, or publish it annually in the legal newspaper the school board designates under SDCL 13-8-10 (SDCL 22-24-55(2)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
None stated. The section names no regulator, creates no enforcement power and sets no penalty.
What it reaches
Covered services
None directly: the duties run to each public school in the state and its school board, which must filter the public access computers minors use, adopt a local policy restricting minors' access to obscene matter or materials, and publish it.
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The section requires filtering, a local policy and its publication, and requires no log, no audit and no retention period.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 22-24-55 of the South Dakota Codified Laws requires each public school in the state to equip each public access computer with software that limits minors' ability to gain access to obscene matter or materials, or to purchase internet connectivity from an internet service provider that provides filter services to limit access to obscene materials.
Each public school must also develop and implement, by , a local policy that establishes measures to restrict minors from accessing obscene matter or materials. The policy must allow an individual to appeal to the school board to determine whether any matter or material is obscene, and the school board's determination is subject to judicial review in a court of competent jurisdiction.
The school board must publish the policy on the school district's website or publish it annually in the legal newspaper designated by the school board. House Bill 1197, chapter 86 of the 2024 Session Laws, an act to require the publication of measures taken to restrict the access of obscene materials by minors, amended the section. House Bill 1197 was signed on .
Chapter 86 of the 2024 Session Laws prescribes no effective date, and under SDCL sec. 2-14-16 an act passed at a regular session without one takes effect on the first day of July after its passage, so the 2024 amendment took effect on . South Dakota first enacted the section in chapter 76 of the 1999 Session Laws. The Legislature amended the section again in chapter 96 of the 2025 Session Laws.
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