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Advisory Opinion 12-010 12-010An individual who was pulled over by peace officers and subjected to a strip search asked for access to the squad car video of the incident. The City denied access, saying it was private personnel data because there is …
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Advisory Opinion 05-036 05-036Did the City of Minneapolis comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in responding to a data request for contact information about city council candidates?
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Advisory Opinion 05-035 05-035Are the following data classified as public pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 13.43, subdivision 3: a written report provided to a school district by a consultant? Are the following data classified as public pursu…
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Advisory Opinion 05-029 05-029Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, what is the classification of the following data the City of Kimball typically would include in the minutes of an open meeting: two resolutions regarding the discipline of two…
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Advisory Opinion 05-018 05-018Did the City of Saint Paul comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in responding to a request for certain data about a former City employee?
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Advisory Opinion 03-021 03-021What is the classification of the following data that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources maintains: a list of each Conservation Officer's annual citation numbers for the past two years?
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Advisory Opinion 03-008 03-008What is the classification of the following data that the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities maintains: the identities of professors affected by the career steps provision in the Inter Faculty Organization contra…
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Advisory Opinion 01-083 01-083Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, is the Clay County Sheriff a
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Advisory Opinion 00-079 00-079Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, what is the classification of ethics opinions/reviews/determinations that the Minnesota Department of Employee Relations prepares pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 43A.3…
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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 00-050 00-050Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did School District 273, Edina, respond appropriately to an August 11, 2000, request for access to data about job applicants? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did S…
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Advisory Opinion 99-018 99-018Did Independent School District 15, St. Francis, properly respond to a public request for information regarding its evaluation of the performance of a District employee?
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Advisory Opinion 99-008 99-008Were the data subject's rights, under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, violated when the Minnesota Department of Human Services denied access, citing section 13.39, to data s/he requested on November 17, 1998.
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Advisory Opinion 97-017 97-017Are health and medical data maintained in the personnel file of a public employee considered medical data within the meaning of Minnesota Statutes Section 13.42, or personnel data under Section 13.43? When a settlement …
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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 95-045 95-045Is the District obligated to release to the public its attorney's investigator's report concerning alleged misconduct by a District employee?
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Advisory Opinion 95-039 95-039Does the
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Advisory Opinion 95-002 95-002Does ISD #709's failure to deliver this memorandum to X within five (5) days of his 7/15/94 request violate Minn. Stat. §13.04, subd. 3? Does ISD #709's failure to deliver this memorandum to X within five (5) days of hi…
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Advisory Opinion 95-001 95-001Does a member of the public have the right to gain access to government data about a public employee that describe specific institutions of learning attended and specific places of employment?
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Advisory Opinion 94-042 94-042Is the identity of a governmental employee who has been disciplined, and the nature of the discipline imposed on that employee, public data prior to a final disposition of the disciplinary action.
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Advisory Opinion 94-036 94-036
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Advisory Opinion 94-034 94-034Are the documents, other than the personnel file and the building file, that have been requested by the employee subject to disclosure to the employee given the nature by which those documents were generated, kept and m…
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Advisory Opinion 94-022 94-022Since the search committee is now conducting interviews of the remaining candidates, are those candidates
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Advisory Opinion 94-018 94-018Under Minn. Stat. §13.43, subd. 8, does the phrase
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Advisory Opinion 93-003 93-003Do videotapes that trigger an investigation that ultimately leads to discipline of a public employee, and which are referred to as grounds for the disciplinary action, constitute 'public data' under the Minnesota Govern…