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Requesting & Accessing Data (391 opinions)
Requests for data
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Advisory Opinion 98-022 98-022Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, did Independent School District 197 respond appropriately to a data subject's verbal and written requests for access to data?
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Advisory Opinion 98-012 98-012Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.03, did the University of Minnesota respond properly, i.e., did the University provide a timely response, to a request for access to data dated November 25, 1997?
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Advisory Opinion 97-026 97-026Would the rights of a data subject be violated, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, if a government entity provided access to the following data which appear on payroll checks: date of issue, number of check, nam…
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Advisory Opinion 97-020 97-020Has Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis, responded appropriately, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, to Ms. Morrison's request for access to the private data about her child? Has Special School District N…
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Advisory Opinion 96-051 96-051Has the City of Elk River complied with the requirements of Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, subdivision 3, regarding access to data by a data subject? Is the City's photocopy charge to a data subject of $5.00 for the…
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Advisory Opinion 96-047 96-047Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, must a government entity honor standing requests for data? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.42, what is the classification of directory information on persons recently…
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Advisory Opinion 95-005 95-005Must Chaska permit public access to the Notice of Claim, to information concerning the existence and status of a sexual harassment claim, whether a student is the alleged perpetrator, and the damages (if any) that have …
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Advisory Opinion 94-056 94-056Are members of the public entitled to gain access to files relating to workers' compensation through use of a company name as the search criterion? Is the public entitled to gain access to those data in the worker's com…
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Advisory Opinion 94-045 94-045Are government data, provided to a school district, that consist of a financial profit and loss statement, commodities inventory list, and summary of purchases list, accessible to the public? NOTE: The identification of…
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Advisory Opinion 94-038 94-038Is he entitled to gain access to data that existed on the District's computer on or before October 21, 1993? Has X actually received the information that existed in the District's computer on or before October 21, 1993?…
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Advisory Opinion 94-032 94-032Do the policies of two state agencies, that of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and that of the Department of Corrections, both of which insist upon a birth date in order to access criminal history information, subve…
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Advisory Opinion 94-031 94-031Do the policies of two state agencies, that of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and that of the Department of Corrections, both of which insist upon a birth date in order to access criminal history information, subve…
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Advisory Opinion 94-014 94-014Are the questions and documents [that he asked and requested] considered public data, was the method he used to make his request a legitimate one, [and] did the City respond in a legal and timely manner?