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Tracking A Data Request Regarding The Dakota Access Pipeline
Instead of producing documents that might have provided insight into Hennepin County’s decision-making process, the sheriff’s office let more than a year lapse before turning over data. ... Continue Reading
In Saint Paul, a transparency change
Due to concerns raised by women’s advocates, the St. Paul City Council is no longer requiring people who testify at public hearings to verbally give their home address. ... Continue Reading
Invoices detail payments from DEED to Greater MSP
Highlighting an unusual relationship, invoices show that the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has been billed more than $80,000 by Greater MSP for a variety of economic development-related activities since 2015. ... Continue Reading
FBI releases agency files pertaining to former Senator Rod Grams
Five months after Rod Grams took office in the mid-1990s, the FBI investigated a death threat against the late U.S. senator from Minnesota from an individual who threatened to shoot Grams and then take his own life. ... Continue Reading
DOJ: “No documents” in PRM lawsuit
Public Record Media filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice, seeking records related to mass surveillance programs that collected communications data on more than one million U.S. persons. ... Continue Reading
Documents show interplay between MN governor, news media
While the governor and legislative leaders kept the 2015 budget negotiations in Minnesota private, Gov. Mark Dayton’s own staff was regularly briefing the governor about what reporters were doing. ... Continue Reading