South Dakota landlords squared off Wednesday against the state court system and lost in a tussle over criminal records.
Landlords told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it's expensive and time consuming to get criminal background reports on prospective tenants because the court system doesn't offer that information on the Internet.
Criminal background reports on people are available to the public at clerks of court and through the state court system.
SB160 would have required the court system to provide a Web site for criminal history reports as soon as possible, and it would have limited the fee to $5 or the cost of providing the information, whichever was less. The bill was killed 6-1.
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