Lieutenant Paul Stevens currently serves with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, where he is assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division. In addition to oversight of all Criminal Investigations, Lt. Stevens supervises the Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officer Program [...]

Laura Scheibe is the director of the Division of College, Career, and Student Success for the South Dakota Department of Education. In this role she serves as the state’s Director for Career and Technical Education, oversees the Job’s [...]

Toby Russell is the Supervisory Special Assistant Attorney General for the Internet Crimes Against Children and Digital Evidence Unit under the Division of Criminal Investigation. Toby is also the Commander of the statewide Internet Crimes Against Children Task [...]

Stacy Reitmeier is director of Case Management, Chaplaincy and Social Services for Avera McKennan Hospital. She has direct oversight of these areas, which includes the Walsh Family Village Hospitality House.

Tifanie Petro, MS, serves as the Director of Advocacy and Prevention, overseeing the Children’s Home Child Advocacy Center and multiple statewide awareness and education campaigns. In addition to overseeing collaborative investigations of child abuse cases; Tifanie provides forensic [...]

Kathy LaPlante, MSW, is a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, and a master of social welfare degree from the University of California [...]

Teresa R. Nieto, MSW, enrolled Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate has over 22 years of experience in state, tribal, private, and federal child welfare systems.

Tatewin Means is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Oglala Lakota and Inhanktonwan nations in South Dakota. Ms. Means grew up in her Oglala homelands where her father is from. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford [...]

Wendy Kloeppner, J.D., hails from Bemidji, Minnesota. She is a graduate of Bemidji State University with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Writing, and a Minor in Business Administration. After her Bachelor’s Degree, [...]

Sara Kelly serves as the Court Improvement Program Coordinator for the South Dakota Unified Judicial System, State Court Administrator Office. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology from St. Cloud State University. She is a [...]