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Requesting & Accessing Data (391 opinions)
Inspection
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Advisory Opinion 12-009 12-009In response to a request for a copy of the superintendent’s contract, a school district provided access to public personnel data it extracted from the contract, but refused to provide a redacted copy of the contract its…
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Advisory Opinion 09-018 09-018Did the City of White Bear Lake comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it charged a person $26.69 for copying 100 pages of data when the person wanted only 25 pages of data?
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Advisory Opinion 07-023 07-023Did the City of Newport comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in its response to a May 29, 2007, request to inspect certain government data?
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Advisory Opinion 07-015 07-015In responding to a March 28, 2007, data request, did the Sherburne County Sheriff comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it copied the data into a response rather than allowing the requestor the opportunity to…
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Advisory Opinion 06-014 06-014Did the Minnesota Department of Corrections comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, regarding a January 22, 2006, request for data?
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Advisory Opinion 06-011 06-011Did Sherburne County comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in denying access to a request to inspect, remotely, certain data the County maintains?
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Advisory Opinion 05-020 05-020Is Resource Training and Solutions in compliance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, by requiring a data requestor to inspect data at its attorney's office, which is located in a different city?
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Advisory Opinion 04-076 04-076Did the Middle-Snake-Tamarac Rivers Watershed District comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, regarding an August 30, 3004, request to inspect certain government data?
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Advisory Opinion 04-073 04-073Did the Middle-Snake-Tamarac Rivers Watershed District comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in regard to an August 25, 2004, request to inspect certain data?
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Advisory Opinion 04-061 04-061Did the City of Warren comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in responding to an August 4, 2004, request to inspect certain data?
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Advisory Opinion 04-059 04-059Is the Eagan Charter Commission subject to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13? If the answer to question 1 is yes, did the Eagan Charter Commission comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in its response to a July 16, 2…
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Advisory Opinion 04-058 04-058Did the City of Warren comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in assessing a fee when the data requestor asked to review certain data?
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Advisory Opinion 04-051 04-051Has the Middle-Snake-Tamarac Rivers Watershed District complied with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, and Minnesota Statutes, section 103D.315, subdivision 5, when it denied inspection of data because the requestor refus…
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Advisory Opinion 04-050 04-050Did the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in responding to a request to inspect certain government data?
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Advisory Opinion 04-031 04-031Is the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office in compliance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, by refusing to allow the Shoreview Press to review the forms or documents on which public response or incident data are recorded?
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Advisory Opinion 03-039 03-039Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, is it appropriate for Independent School District 276, Minnetonka, to charge an individual to inspect government data in a situation where the District's architect is in posse…
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Advisory Opinion 02-036 02-036Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, has the Minnesota Secretary of State Office (OSS) responded appropriately to a request to inspect - via downloading - the following data: all UCCs, tax liens, and many other pu…
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Advisory Opinion 02-028 02-028Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 13.03, did School District 284, Wayzata, respond appropriately to an April 5, 2002, request to review data?
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Advisory Opinion 02-022 02-022Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did School District 11, Anoka-Hennepin, respond appropriately to a March 8, 2002, request to inspect public government data?
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Advisory Opinion 02-012 02-012Is the City of Hopkins in compliance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, with respect to its practice of providing access to copyrighted building plans for the purposes of inspection, but providing copies of same only …
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Advisory Opinion 01-086 01-086Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, is it appropriate for the Le Sueur County Sheriff to charge an individual $4 per page to scan a copy of a document? (The individual will bring his own scanner to the office.) …
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Advisory Opinion 01-076 01-076Has the City of Mounds View violated Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, by not providing access, via inspection, to the data requested in Exhibits A - O?
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Advisory Opinion 01-071 01-071Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning respond appropriately to an June 5, 2001, request to inspect government data?
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Advisory Opinion 01-054 01-054Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning respond appropriately to an April 6, 2001, request to inspect government data?
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Advisory Opinion 01-011 01-011Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did the City of Greenwood respond appropriately to a request to inspect all