SF No. 43 – The bill would amend Chapter 13 so that “Government data of a political subdivision on requests for notices of services or activities of a political subdivision” would be “private data on individuals or nonpublic data.”
SF No. 60 – The bill is the Senate companion to HF No. 20. The bill proposes to keep e-mail addresses submitted to government entities “not public.”
The City of Minneapolis is asking IPAD, the office with the Department of Administration that reviews Data Practices issues, to issue a temporary classification for License Plate Recognition (LPR) data. The data, which consists of millions of police scans of vehicle plates captured by squad car-mounted cameras, is currently available as public data under the Minnesota Data Practices Act. Minneapolis is seeking to have the data temporarily classified as “not public” in anticipation of more comprehensive action by the Minnesota Legislature.
The legislature is expected to take up questions of LPR retention and classification during its 2013 session. MNCOGI will be presenting its perspective on LPR data issues at its January 28 public forum.
The Minnesota Legislature convened on January 8, 2013. The following bills were introduced on January 10th. Each has some bearing on Data Practices and Open Meeting issues:
HF No. 5, Establishing a Minnesota insurance exchange
HF No. 5 creates a board to direct the function of the insurance exchange. The bill contains provisions which would exempt certain board discussions (contract negotiations, personnel matters, trade secret information) from the Open Meeting law.
SF No. 1, Senate companion to HF No. 5, with similar provisions
HF No. 20, Classifying e-mail and telephone data
HF No. 20 would classify e-mail and telephone information provided to government entities for notification purposes (snow plowing, etc) as “private data on individuals.” This data is currently public data.
HF No. 42, Subjecting certain DNR/tribal meetings to the Open Meeting law
HF No. 42 would subject meetings involving the Department of Natural Resources, Ojibwe bands, and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission to the Open Meeing Law.
