{
  "batch": "430-south-dakota-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
  "articles": [
    {
      "id": "learn_r430_south_dakota_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_430_south_dakota_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_cre",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SDCL ch. 22-24: No state producer record-keeping duty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The obscenity chapter lists no section requiring producers of explicit content to keep performer age records (a state analogue to federal record-keeping).",
      "body": "The obscenity chapter lists no section requiring producers of explicit content to keep performer age records (a state analogue to federal record-keeping).\n\nWhat South Dakota Legislature (South Dakota Codified Laws) actually says:\n\n“22-24-69 Online covered platform--Required age verification--Penalty. 22-24-70 Online covered platform--Sale or retention of identifying information prohibited--Penalty. 22-24-71 Online covered platform--Compliance notice--Time to comply. 22-24-72 Online covered platform--Injunction and civil penalty. 22-24-73 Online covered platform--Applicability.”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing or page that does not mention it, not from operative text). Read the full catchline index of chapter 22-24 (and 22-24A); no producer/custodian-of-records section appears. Federal record-keeping is outside this state-law return.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://sdlegislature.gov/api/Statutes/Statute/22-24",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-17",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "South Dakota Legislature (South Dakota Codified Laws)",
      "evidence_quote": "22-24-69 Online covered platform--Required age verification--Penalty. 22-24-70 Online covered platform--Sale or retention of identifying information prohibited--Penalty. 22-24-71 Online covered platform--Compliance notice--Time to comply. 22-24-72 Online covered platform--Injunction and civil penalty. 22-24-73 Online covered platform--Applicability.",
      "volatility": "medium",
      "from_batch": "430-south-dakota-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SDCL ch. 22-24",
      "topic": "No state producer record-keeping duty",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "SD",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-sd"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap",
          "deferred_state_uncorroborated:us-sd"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z"
      }
    }
  ]
}