Individual privacy and dignity to be respected.

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27A-12-1. Individual privacy and dignity to be respected.

Each person has the right to a humane environment that affords appropriate individual privacy, individual dignity and reasonable protection from harm. These rights shall be respected at all times and upon all occasions, including any occasion when the person is taken into custody, detained, or transported in accordance with the provisions of this title.

Source: SL 1975, ch 181, §3; SDCL Supp, §27-1-7; SL 1991, ch 220, §166.


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