<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 19-19-508 - Confidential communications to public officer. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2045444Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2045444SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045444CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2045444Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2045444DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; 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SDCL § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=19-13-21"><span class="s2045444SCL-000002">19-13-21</span></a><span class="s2045444SCL-000002">.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 19-19-508 - Confidential communications to public officer. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2045445Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2045445SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045445CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; 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margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=19-19-508.1"><span class="s2045445SENU">19-19-508.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045445SENU">. </span><span class="s2045445CL">Student and counselor, psychologist, or social worker--Exceptions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045445DefaultParagraphFont">No counselor or school psychologist, certificated in accordance with the certification regulations of the South Dakota Board of Education Standards, or social worker licensed under chapter </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=36-26"><span class="s2045445DefaultParagraphFont">36-26</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045445DefaultParagraphFont"> and regularly employed as a counselor, school psychologist, or social worker for a private or public elementary or secondary school or school system in the State of South Dakota, may divulge to any other person, or be examined concerning any information or communication given to the counselor, school psychologist, or social worker in the counselor's, school psychologist's, or social worker's official capacity by a student unless:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal-000001"><span class="s2045445DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    This privilege is waived in writing by the student; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal-000001"><span class="s2045445DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    The information or communication was made to the counselor, school psychologist, or social worker for the express purpose of being communicated or of being made public; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal-000001"><span class="s2045445DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    The counselor, school psychologist, or social worker has reason to suspect, as a result of that information or communication, that the student or some other persons have been subjected to child abuse or that the student's physical or mental health or the physical or mental health of other persons may be in jeopardy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045445000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045445Normal"><span class="s2045445SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045445SCL-000003"> SL 1972, ch 131; SL 1974, ch 161; SDCL Supp, § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=19-2-5.1"><span class="s2045445SCL-000003">19-2-5.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045445SCL-000003">; SL 1998, ch 122, § 1; SDCL § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=19-13-21.1"><span class="s2045445SCL-000003">19-13-21.1</span></a><span class="s2045445SCL-000003">; SL 2017, ch 81, § 57; SL 2019, ch 103, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 19-19-508 - Confidential communications to public officer. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2045446Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2045446SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045446CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; 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} span.s2045446SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045446SCL-000004 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=19-19-508.2"><span class="s2045446SENU">19-19-508.2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045446SENU">. </span><span class="s2045446CL">College or university counselor and student--Exceptions--Qualifications of counselor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal-000000"><span class="s2045446DefaultParagraphFont">No counselor, regularly employed on a full-time basis as a counselor for a private or public college or university in the State of South Dakota, may divulge to any other person, or be examined concerning any information or communication given to the counselor in his official capacity by a client unless:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal-000001"><span class="s2045446DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    This privilege is waived in writing by the student; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal-000001"><span class="s2045446DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    The information or communication was made to the counselor for the express purpose of being communicated or of being made public.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal-000002"><span class="s2045446DefaultParagraphFont">For the purposes of this section "counselor" and "counseling" mean service performed by persons trained in clinical counseling employed by public and private colleges and universities to provide psychological counseling services to enrolled students under stated policy guidelines of the institution.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045446000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045446Normal"><span class="s2045446SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045446SCL-000004"> SL 1974, ch 163, §§ 1, 2; SDCL Supp, § 19-2-5.2; SDCL § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=19-13-21.2"><span class="s2045446SCL-000004">19-13-21.2</span></a><span class="s2045446SCL-000004">.</span></p></div></body></html>