2023 South Dakota Missing Persons Clearinghouse Summary January-June
#MMIWG2S #MissingPersons #NamUs #SouthDakota
This is a summary of the last six months (less 3 days I missed–one due to site issues) of watching the clearinghouse as an average citizen. I have not requested anything official but use information solely from the official clearinghouse provided online to all.
The total number of people missing on any given day should be at least seven more (per the missing in the
mine and agencies, will account for some discrepancies. As of now, I do not attempt to ensure I catch every single change to records (e.g. race, sex, agency). I may flag some in my head to watch if I think a change will come or if there has been a discrepancy before, but some may go unnoticed.
None of them are getting the daily attention to each record as is deserved. I hope to change that, but for full disclosure, I’m not paying attention to all details after a post is listed for a few days.
There most definitely are errors in official listings due to changes in subsequent listings which does change some of the numbers only slightly.
I also rarely know if a person is found alive or deceased. At least three have been found deceased during this period and had all been missing prior to the beginning of 2023.
It, again, always should be noted that not all those listed on the SD Missing Persons Clearinghouse are listed on NAMUS and vice versa. NAMUS info (pulled ~weekly) is included in the monthly summaries for this reason. June summary can be found here
2023 Missing Persons Clearinghouse June #MMIWG2S #MissingPersons #NamUs #SouthDakota Again, this month there were more changes to records. Rather than assuming records should be consolidated due to the dates of removals and listings being the same or next day, I left them as unique placements since they could have gone missing the same day they were found unless the missing date was the same as a previous listing. Numbers will not add up due to these discrepancies.
2023 (January - June)
Beginning active listings - 140 (31 Dec 2022)
Listings added in 2023 - 634
Listings added for previous year(s) missing dates - 15
Most listings in a day - 9 (6 days tied)
Most removals in a day - 13 (3May)
Most active listings - 146 (1Jan)
Fewest active listings - 94 (25Mar)
Date with most missing - 13Jan (10)
Race
Asian/PI - 11
Female - 6
Male - 5
Black - 62
Female - 30
Male - 32
Native American (AI/AN) - 348 (incl 10 N.His/Lat)
Female - 232 (incl 5 N.His/Lat)
Male - 116 (incl 5 N.His/Lat)
White - 154 (incl 15 W.His/Lat)
Female - 79 (incl 10 W.His/Lat)
Male - 75 (incl 5 W.His/Lat)
Unknown - 47 (incl 1 W.His/Lat)
Female - 22 (incl 1 W.His/Lat)
Male - 25
REPORTING AGENCIES
Aberdeen - 22
Belle Fourche - 3
Box Elder - 12
Brandon - 7
Brookings - 12
Brown Co - 3
Brule Co - 1
Butte Co - 1
Charles Mix Co - 1
Cheyenne River OST - 3
Clark - 1
Clark Co - 1
Crow Creek Tribal - 4
Davison Co - 1
Deuel Co - 2
Herreid - 1
Huron - 15
Kingsbury Co - 2
Lawrence Co - 2
Lennox - 1
Lincoln Co - 4
Lower Brule Tribal - 1
Martin - 1
Meade Co - 4
Minnehaha Co - 13
Mitchell -12
Mobridge - 4
Pennington Co - 38
Perkins Co - 2
Pierre - 16
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