Definition of expungement
Known as the Uniform Act
The act spans §§ 23A-3-1 to 23A-3-9 (38 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In Re the Expungement of Records Related to Oliver (2012)
Most recently applied in Record Expungement of Jones (September 2025)
Source: SL 2010, ch 126, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Terms used in §§ 23A-3-27 to 23A-3-33, inclusive, mean:
(1) "Expungement," the sealing of all records on file within any court, detention or correctional facility, law enforcement agency, criminal justice agency, or Department of Public Safety concerning a person's detection, apprehension, arrest, detention, trial or disposition of an offense within the criminal justice system. Expungement does not imply the physical destruction of records.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.