The state’s leading law enforcement authority outlines priorities for the new year at a recent Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary Club meeting.
Attorney General Marty Jackley first spoke on the newly formed partnership between the AG and Minnehaha County legal authorities through a federal domestic violence grant.
“It’ll make a big difference. And those are the hard cases that we see sometimes get worse. Certainty when it is domestic violence, it takes the person that’s the victim the strength to come forward. And that’s why the important component of it is those victim services so that whoever the victim is, can feel comfortable with coming forward and knowing that law enforcements going to make a difference and address the issue,” said Jackley.
The grant awarded the state just over half-a-million dollars from the federal Office of Violence Against Women.
Its goal is to improve statewide justice in response to domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Jackley outlined other “strategies" he says his office is focused on this year. One of those is what Jackley says is an issue of unregulated artificial intelligence.
“What we are seeing with all the social media, whether its TikTok, Meta, Google, there’re not protecting our kids, but, its not that they are just not protecting them, they’re hurting them by gathering their search data, gathering their information, and their selling it. That’s why when our kids are on social media, they are keeping track of everything they do, and then they market bad things right back to them,” said Jackley.
He said advancements in AI will eventually reach a point to where it would be near impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a person on a screen is real or artificial.
Jackley said his office hasmultiple bills up for consideration this legislative session to address these concerns.
