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MN Supreme Court Issues Two Gov't Data Practices Cases

The opinions were issued on November 16, 2011, and are located on the Minnesota Courts’ website:

Bearder v. State of Minnesota
KSTP-TV v. Ramsey County

Records Management

Find government records information at MN State Archives and MN Government Records Information Network (MN-GRIN)

Data Practices Featured on tpt's Almanac at the Capitol

Commentator and cartoonist David Gillette of tpt's Almanac at the Capitol features data practices in one of his two-minute essays. Take a look.



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IPAD’s Legislative Policy Proposal

IPAD’s data practices and open meeting policy proposal will be introduced this Legislative Session. Additional information about this proposal is included in IPAD’s summary of the proposal. Once introduced, a follow-up message will be sent to our listserv including bill numbers and authors.

Please feel free to send any feedback you may have on this proposal to info.ipad@state.mn.us.

U.S. Dept of Ed Makes Revisions to FERPA

The U.S. Department of Education issued revised FERPA regulations on December 2, 2011, effective date of January 3, 2012.

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