Faulk County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Faulk County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 2,141 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Faulk County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2000.
- Months sent in 2025
- 4 of 12
- FBI agency code
- SD0240000
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
A clerk magistrate, a court clerk who is not a lawyer, usually sets the first bond or grants personal recognizance from the presiding judge's fine and bond schedule, for felonies as well as misdemeanors. Murder, first-degree manslaughter, and kidnapping go to a circuit or magistrate judge. Domestic abuse bond is set by a magistrate judge or circuit judge.
SDCL 16-12C-10SDCL 16-2-21UJS Fine and Bond Schedule for Use by Clerk Magistrates- Time to see a judge
Police must take an arrested person before the nearest available committing magistrate without unnecessary delay. South Dakota law sets no number of hours.
SDCL 23A-4-1
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.