SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Senate Judiciary Committee summer study topics will include statutes governing treatment of ag animals versus household pets.
Committee Chair Craig Tiezen says a review of South Dakota’s civil forfeiture law is needed too.
Tiezen says he believes there's some sort of mood outside of the criminal justice system where people are looking with a sort of jaundiced eye at some of the forfeiture things.
Civil forfeiture is a legal process where law enforcement can take assets from suspects without charging the owners of wrongdoing.