Each person has the right to a humane environment that affords appropriate individual privacy, individual dignity and reasonable protection from harm. These rights shall be respected at all times and upon all occasions, including any occasion when the person is taken into custody, detained, or transported in accordance with the provisions of this title.
S.D. Codified Laws § 27A-12-1
Individual privacy and dignity to be respected
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In re S.L. (1988)
Most recently applied in Gates v. Black Hills Health Care Systems (January 2014)
Source: SL 1975, ch 181, § 3; SDCL Supp, § 27-1-7; SL 1991, ch 220, § 166.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.