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Personnel & Employment Data (244 opinions)
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Advisory Opinion 11-003 11-003Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, would School District 309, Park Rapids, violate the data practices rights of a former employee if it disseminates certain data about the former employee to the Hubbard County …
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Advisory Opinion 10-014 10-014Did the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in disclosing certain data to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) given there has been no final disposition of disciplinary …
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Advisory Opinion 08-027 08-027Did Independent School District 834, Stillwater, comply with Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, in its response to a request for access to public data about certain applicants for employment by the District?
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Advisory Opinion 08-014 08-014Is the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) determination regarding a report of alleged student maltreatment public data on individuals pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 13.43, subdivision 2(a)(5), or alterna…
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Advisory Opinion 07-021 07-021Did Independent School District 347, Willmar, comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it determined that a student's name, which appears in certain data relating to an investigation of allegations of misconduct…
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Advisory Opinion 03-010 03-010Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, are videotapes of School District extracurricular athletic contests and/or school hallways government data, where they are created and maintained by agents of the District? As…
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Advisory Opinion 03-006 03-006Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, does the memorandum contain private personnel data on employees of Independent School District 709, Duluth? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, is the District require…
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Advisory Opinion 02-045 02-045Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did Itasca County inappropriately release private data about employee
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Advisory Opinion 02-007 02-007Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did School District 276, Minnetonka, respond appropriately to a January 11, 2002, request for access to public data about a District employee?
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Advisory Opinion 01-081 01-081Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, may Independent School District 194, Lakeville, provide to the Lakeville Police Department, in connection with a report of a possible crime, the following data, without consen…
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Advisory Opinion 01-045 01-045Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in response to a request for copies of public personnel data, may Independent School District 11, Anoka-Hennepin, require a person to pay for photocopies of a blank applicatio…
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Advisory Opinion 01-025 01-025Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning respond appropriately to two requests for access to scholarship application scoring data, dated May 30, 2000, a…
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Advisory Opinion 00-074 00-074Whether the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) responded appropriately to X's request to have access to all data maintained about him/her when the Department provided copies of audio tapes that are difficult t…
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Advisory Opinion 00-020 00-020Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, what is the classification of the data contained in a student petition that criticizes the performance of a District employee? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, may …
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Advisory Opinion 99-014 99-014Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, what is the classification of the following data generated by the Arrowhead Library System in response to a complaint made about one of its employees: an investigative report a…
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Advisory Opinion 98-048 98-048Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, did Clay County properly deny public access to copies of internal e-mail messages, letters and/or memos relating to the County Attorney's decisions about a child abuse investig…
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Advisory Opinion 98-008 98-008Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, subdivision 3, did the University of Minnesota respond properly, i.e., did the University fully comply with the requests and were the responses timely, to requests for acces…
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Advisory Opinion 98-007 98-007Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Sections 13.04 (subdivision 2), 13.05, 13.43, and 13.49, have the rights of the data subjects been violated because the Grand Rapids Public Utilities Commission did not provide a Tennessen…
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Advisory Opinion 98-001 98-001Did the District comply with Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, subdivision 2, when it collected private data from H about H upon his/her being hired in 1991? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, in 1994, did th…
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Advisory Opinion 97-034 97-034Has the Minnesota Department of Transportation responded properly, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, to a data subject's request for access to data?
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Advisory Opinion 97-018 97-018Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, must School District 278, Orono, disclose to the subject of the complaint the contents of a harassment complaint and its investigation notes detailing the allegations where the…
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Advisory Opinion 96-062 96-062Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, subdivision 2, was J entitled to receive a
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Advisory Opinion 96-002 96-002Upon responding to a request for access to data by a data subject, is it appropriate, pursuant to Chapter 13, for a government entity to withhold entire documents because those documents apparently contain private or co…Educational data Legislative authority and intent Multiple data subjects Personnel data #Complainant identity #Data subject access #Data subject access to personnel data #Harassment data (13.43, subd. 8) #Inextricably intertwined data (See also: Northwest Publications, Inc. v. City of Bloomington, 499 N.W.2d 509)
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Advisory Opinion 95-046 95-046Did H's supervisor act in compliance with Chapter 13 when he disseminated data about H (an employee of Minneapolis Community College) to persons not employed by Minneapolis College? Did H's supervisor act in compliance …Data subjects Educational data Informed consent Personnel data #Data necessary for administration and management of programs (13.05, subd. 3) #Entity determination under 13.072 #Intergovernmental access (13.05, subd. 9) #Necessary to administer a program authorized by law (13.05, subd. 3) #Performance data/evaluations
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Advisory Opinion 95-035 95-035Is the Brooklyn Park Police Civil Service Commission aData subjects Educational data Informed consent Personnel data Tennessen warning #Civil investigative data (13.39) #Consent needed for new use of data if notice was not given #Data necessary for administration and management of programs (13.05, subd. 3) #Informed consent #Mental impressions (See: Keezer v. Spickard, 493 N.W.2d 614)