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Criminal Records — South Dakota
Criminal case records for South Dakota are kept by the court that heard each case. In South Dakota, all criminal cases are heard by the Circuit Court; magistrate courts within the Circuit Court handle misdemeanors and preliminary hearings. Many court records are public and can be viewed or copied at the clerk's office of the court that heard the case. Source: ujs.sd.gov ↗
⚖️ Official criminal records sources in South Dakota
| State court system | South Dakota Unified Judicial System |
Criminal Records by County
Aurora County
Pop. 2,752
Beadle County
Pop. 19,459
Bennett County
Pop. 3,289
Bon Homme County
Pop. 7,071
Brookings County
Pop. 36,359
Brown County
Pop. 37,495
Brule County
Pop. 5,261
Buffalo County
Pop. 1,825
Butte County
Pop. 10,891
Campbell County
Pop. 1,342
Charles Mix County
Pop. 9,343
Clark County
Pop. 3,974
Clay County
Pop. 15,245
Codington County
Pop. 29,278
Corson County
Pop. 3,747
Custer County
Pop. 9,330
Davison County
Pop. 19,907
Day County
Pop. 5,408
Deuel County
Pop. 4,335
Dewey County
Pop. 5,322
Douglas County
Pop. 2,849
Edmunds County
Pop. 4,027
Fall River County
Pop. 7,359
Faulk County
Pop. 2,136
Grant County
Pop. 7,618
Gregory County
Pop. 4,110
Haakon County
Pop. 1,834
Hamlin County
Pop. 6,596
Hand County
Pop. 3,097
Hanson County
Pop. 3,477
Harding County
Pop. 1,325
Hughes County
Pop. 17,526
Hutchinson County
Pop. 7,416
Hyde County
Pop. 1,215
Jackson County
Pop. 2,737
Jerauld County
Pop. 1,689
Jones County
Pop. 874
Kingsbury County
Pop. 5,261
Lake County
Pop. 11,006
Lawrence County
Pop. 28,809
Lincoln County
Pop. 75,244
Lyman County
Pop. 3,721
Marshall County
Pop. 4,395
McCook County
Pop. 5,771
McPherson County
Pop. 2,307
Meade County
Pop. 30,918
Mellette County
Pop. 1,834
Miner County
Pop. 2,303
Minnehaha County
Pop. 208,639
Moody County
Pop. 6,529
Oglala Lakota County
Pop. 13,360
Pennington County
Pop. 115,979
Perkins County
Pop. 2,832
Potter County
Pop. 2,402
Roberts County
Pop. 10,283
Sanborn County
Pop. 2,392
Spink County
Pop. 6,108
Stanley County
Pop. 3,015
Sully County
Pop. 1,468
Todd County
Pop. 9,172
Tripp County
Pop. 5,717
Turner County
Pop. 9,087
Union County
Pop. 17,402
Walworth County
Pop. 5,270
Yankton County
Pop. 23,509
Ziebach County
Pop. 2,418