Vargo proud of accomplishment as attorney general

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – Pennington County State’s Lawyer Mark Vargo’s run as South Dakota legal professional normal involves an finish in only a few weeks. He agreed to take the job on a brief foundation after the impeachment of Lawyer Common Jason Ravnsborg.

One of many issues Vargo appears most happy with is appointing folks to run the brand new Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Individuals or Indigenous Ladies’s Workplace and getting that operation up and working. Vargo says that was one of many three priorities he introduced when he took workplace. He says the accomplishment was big.

Vargo says, “I really feel like by bringing within the individuals who have a definite invested curiosity, from Pink Ribbon Skirt Society to tribal governments to the Nice Plains Tribal Chairs, bringing all these folks right into a room having a sing and a smudge on the legal professional normal’s workplace, and really welcoming that group into this course of, I feel units it up for a hit in a method we may by no means replicate two years down the street. Getting the appropriate begin, I feel was key and I’m very happy with how we did that.”

Vargo returns at Pennington County State’s Lawyer when Marty Jackley takes over the legal professional normal’s workplace on January seventh.

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