Site offers look at criminal justice system

Bismarck Tribune: "The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has partnered with a nonprofit organization to create a website designed to provide the public, researchers and policymakers with more access to data about the state’s criminal justice system."

Dakota Datebook: Last state passes 19th Amendment

Prairie Public: "On this date in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the federal woman’s suffrage bill, meeting the three fourths majority required to pass the 19th Amendment."

Feds release nationwide sex offender registry regulation

ABC News: "The Justice Department announced a new regulation Monday spelling out detailed nationwide requirements for sex offender registration under a law Congress passed in 2006."

Job Announcement - District Court Paralegal

A job announcement for a District Court Paralegal with the Judicial Support Pilot Project in Minot has been posted.

Job Announcement - District Court Paralegal

A job announcement for a District Court Paralegal with the Judicial Support Pilot Project in Watford City has been posted.

After a long legal career in ND, Ralph Maxwell was named one of the world's best senior athletes

Dickinson Press: "Ralph Maxwell, after a lengthy career of 45 years as a lawyer, county attorney, district state’s attorney and judge, set his sights on competing against the world’s best senior athletes."

State juvenile sex offense laws are wide-ranging, harmful, report says

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: "Youth in Minnesota who commit sexual offenses can be held on a registry for, at a minimum, 10 years. In nearby North Dakota, the minimum is 15 years. In South Dakota it’s five years."

The nudge and tiebreaker that took women's suffrage from nay to yea

MPR News: "The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified 100 years ago this week."

S.D. justices take company’s side in a dispute with state’s underground storage tanks program

KELO News: "A circuit judge in a financial case correctly ruled against state government’s program for cleaning up leaks from underground storage tanks, the South Dakota Supreme Court said."

SEJD conducts socially distanced jury trial in Jamestown

Southeast Judicial District Judge Cherie L. Clark recently presided over a socially distanced jury trial in Jamestown's historic 1883 courthouse.