Bruggeman v. South Dakota Chemical Dependency Counselor Certification Board

(on reassignment).

[¶ 1.] Circuit court dismissed appeal of a South Dakota Chemical Dependency Counselor Certification Board decision, ruling it was not an agency for purposes of an administrative appeal. We reverse and remand.

PACTS

[¶ 2.] James Bruggeman worked in Belle Fourehe as director of program development at the Addiction Family Resource Center, an alcohol prevention and treatment facility co-founded by Bruggeman and accredited by the Division of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (Division). Bruggeman was first certified as a chemical dependency counselor by the South Dakota Chemical Dependency…