Legal Question in Criminal Law in South Dakota
Can police report copies be relased to the public?
Can police records be released in the form of copies (of the police record) to the defendants. Can the states attorney's office make copies of recent police records and give them to the person who askes for them?
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Can Police Records be Released to the Public?
The answer is not only that the police CAN release a police report, generally speaking they MUST release them.This is not to say they have to release their own confidential notes on an investigation -- they don't.But the initial police incident report is a different matter -- that can be released to the public.
Can police records be released to the public
Defendants have a right to see reports. Reports are not typically released to people other than the defendants, although law enforcement agencies often make news releases.
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