http://www.ipad.state.mn.us en-us http://ipad.state.mn.us/ui/logo1.gif http://www.ipad.state.mn.us 2013-06-14 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13011.html Independent School District 743, Sauk Centre, did not comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, because it collected private data about a student from the student without providing the full notice required by section 13.04, subdivision 2. 2013-04-11 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13010.html The Minnesota Department of Public Safety responded appropriately to a request for the following data, because it does not maintain the data - Data showing all license plate numbers run through Sibley County Sheriff patrol cars on-board computer system, by officer and date, from January 1, 2012 to May 31, 2012. Data showing the response to those Sibley County squad car license plate initiated requests. Data showing the total number of transactions requested, by officer, from January 1, 2012 to May 31, 2012. However, DPS may need to reconsider whether any of the data ACLU-MN requested are not system log files and/or audit trail data, and therefore are not subject to the security information declaration pursuant to section 13.37, subdivisions 1(a) and 2. 2013-03-19 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13008.html An Administrator of a Minnesota Veterans Home is a public official for purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 13.43, subdivision 2(e)(3). 2013-03-19 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13007.html Independent School District 625, St. Paul, did not respond appropriately to a request for the District's data practices access policies and procedures required by Minnesota Statutes, sections 13.025 and 13.03. 2013-03-19 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13009.html The City of Cohasset complied with Minnesota Statutes, section 13D.02, when it held a meeting at which a city council member attended via Skype from a remote location, because the meeting met each of the four requirements in section 13D.02. 2013-03-05 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13005.html Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 13.591, the following data maintained by the Metropolitan Council are public (except for any trade secret data under Minnesota Statutes, section 13.37): the Request for Proposal (RFP) and procurement process data for Contract No. 11P173 2013-03-05 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13006.html Pursuant to Chapter 13, the following personnel data maintained by Independent School District #47, Sauk Rapids-Rice, are classified as private: grades and grade point averages 2013-02-12 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13004.html Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, the City of Minneapolis responded properly to a request for data related to a complaint/charge against a city employee. 2013-01-23 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13003.html Because of the nature of the correspondence between the City and the data requester, the Commissioner is unable to determine whether the City responded properly to a request for inspection data, despite the City's good faith effort to respond. 2013-01-14 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13002.html Pursuant to Chapter 13, Scott County did not respond appropriately to a data request for copies of public personnel data from an employment application and application supplement; the County should have provided the requester with redacted copies of the actual data. 2013-01-08 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2013/13001.html The Metropolitan Council complied with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it denied access to the following data: Data of correspondence from January 1, 2012, to the present between URS Corporation or AECOM and Metropolitan Council staff regarding the recently canceled procurement for contract 11P173 for an engineering services consultant for Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT). The data include emails, letters and any other written correspondence. 2012-12-05 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12018.html Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, Independent School District 15, St. Francis, violated a school board member's rights when it publically released certain personnel data about him, which were private, because it apparently considered board members to be employees at the time it released the data. 2012-12-05 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12019.html Text messages, emails, and letters among between members of the Duluth Airport Authority and employees or representatives of Monaco Air, are government data when the board members are acting in their capacity as public officials, regardless of whether the correspondence was sent to or from the Board Members' personal cellphones, computers, or home addresses. Correspondence between the Authority board members and Monaco Air are public data pursuant to the general presumption. (Minnesota Statutes, section 13.03, subdivision 1). 2012-11-05 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12017.html The Dakota County Attorney's Office complied with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it denied access to the requested data, if all of the data it maintains regarding the crime lab are used, collected, stored and disseminated exclusively in connection with the County Attorney's professional activities for Dakota County, and thus are exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 13.393. 2012-10-22 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12016.html Pursuant to Chapter 13, St. Louis County did not respond appropriately to a request for the names and/or numbers of voters in Morse Township whose eligibility to vote was challenged and the reasons for those challenges, by stating that the data were not public under Minnesota Statutes, section 201.091. 2012-10-08 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12015.html Concordia Creative Learning Academy (CCLA) is required to release private personnel data about the involved teachers to the Minnesota Board of Teaching under Minnesota Statutes, section 122A.20, subdivision 2. 2012-09-18 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12014.html A data subject's rights may be violated if certain data about him/her were automatically uploaded to an automated crime mapping system as described. 2012-08-20 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12013.html The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) complied with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it denied access to active criminal investigative data related to the Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE) program. DPS did not comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, because it denied access to reasons for and data documenting the basis of final disciplinary action it took against an employee contained in the Statements of Charges. 2012-07-11 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12012.html Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, the following data maintained by Wabasha County are presumptively public: the name of a donor to the County, who wishes to remain anonymous, and data contained in the donor's check. 2012-05-29 MN Information Policy Analysis Division /opinions/2012/12011.html Issue 1. Meetings of the ditch viewers, appointed by the Middle Snake Tamarac Rivers Watershed District (MSTRWD) Board of Managers pursuant to statutory authority, are not subject to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13D, the Minnesota Open Meeting Law. Thus, the MSTRWD Board did not have to comply with the notice requirements set forth in Minnesota Statutes, section 13D.04, regarding a February 28, 2012, gathering of the ditch viewers.