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Personnel & Employment Data (244 opinions)
Personnel data
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Advisory Opinion 26-001 26-001A reporter asked about Met Council’s response to a request for data about a former Metro Transit Police Chief. The reporter requested access to public data about an investigation into complaints or charges against the c…
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Advisory Opinion 20-003 20-003A member of the public made a data request to a school district. He requested an email attachment that contained a district employee’s “contact list.” The school district denied access to the contact list, asserting con…
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Advisory Opinion 14-006 14-006Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did Independent School District 625, St. Paul, respond appropriately to a March 15, 2014, request for data? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did Independent School …
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Advisory Opinion 13-002 13-002A member of the public asked whether an entity responded properly to a request for certain personnel data it maintained. The requester asked for copies of the job application and supplement of a current employee. The en…
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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 12-003 12-003Did the City of Minneapolis comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in its response to a November 15, 2011, request for access to the following data: dates of applications and dates of testing for all applicants for…
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Advisory Opinion 11-013 11-013Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, must the City of Hibbing provide access to the following data to a former employee: written informal complaints and observations about that former employee made by one or mor…
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Advisory Opinion 07-026 07-026Did the City of Zimmerman comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it denied access to memos relating to the dismissal of a City employee?
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Advisory Opinion 07-021 07-021Did Independent School District 347, Willmar, comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, when it determined that a student's name, which appears in certain data relating to an investigation of allegations of misconduct…
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Advisory Opinion 04-064 04-064Did Independent School District 276 (Minnetonka), comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in its response to a May 5, 2004, request for public data?
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Advisory Opinion 04-032 04-032Did Independent School District 700, Hermantown, comply with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in responding to a data subject's request for a copy of her time sheets?
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Advisory Opinion 04-014 04-014Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, does the enclosed document contain private personnel data on former or current employees of the District? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, may the District release …
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Advisory Opinion 03-010 03-010Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, are videotapes of School District extracurricular athletic contests and/or school hallways government data, where they are created and maintained by agents of the District? As…
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Advisory Opinion 03-006 03-006Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, does the memorandum contain private personnel data on employees of Independent School District 709, Duluth? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, is the District require…
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Advisory Opinion 03-001 03-001Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, what is the classification of data contained in documents, labeled Exhibits
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Advisory Opinion 02-030 02-030Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, sections 13.03 and 13.43, did the City of Delavan respond appropriately to requests for access to the following data: 1) the actual gross salaries, fringe benefits, expense reimbursements…
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Advisory Opinion 01-095 01-095Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did the Dodge Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) respond appropriately to a September 17, 2001, request for the following data: copies of all public and private data …
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Advisory Opinion 01-077 01-077Has 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 01-045 01-045Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, in response to a request for copies of public personnel data, may Independent School District 11, Anoka-Hennepin, require a person to pay for photocopies of a blank applicatio…
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Advisory Opinion 01-028 01-028Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did School District 281, Robbinsdale, appropriately withhold from X data on interview notes that identify the persons who interviewed X for employment?
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Advisory Opinion 01-025 01-025Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning respond appropriately to two requests for access to scholarship application scoring data, dated May 30, 2000, a…
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Advisory Opinion 01-005 01-005Did MnSCU respond appropriately to a data subject's January 4, 2000, request for data within the time frame set forth in Minnesota Statutes, section 13.04? Was MnSCU's February 22, 2000, response to a data subject's Jan…
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Advisory Opinion 00-065 00-065Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did Intermediate District 287 respond appropriately to an August 24, 2000, request for access to data about job applicants? Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did Int…Elected and appointed officials Multiple data subjects Personnel data Redaction #Data incidental to the data subject #Finalist for public employment (13.43, subd. 3) #Inextricably intertwined data (See also: Northwest Publications, Inc. v. City of Bloomington, 499 N.W.2d 509) #Interviews #Interviews
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Advisory Opinion 00-063 00-063Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, is the public entitled to gain access to the following data maintained by the City of Windom: the job status of, and compensation and benefits received by, a City employee fol…
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Advisory Opinion 00-047 00-047Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, did Independent School District 11, Anoka-Hennepin, respond appropriately to an August 21, 2000, request to inspect public government data?