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Advisory Opinion 96-014 96-014Has the City of Virginia complied with the requirements of Minnesota Statutes Section 13.04, subdivision 3, regarding access to data by a data subject? Does a copy charge of $.25 per page represent the
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Advisory Opinion 96-012 96-012Is Mr. Spaulding entitled to gain access to the data he requested? What is DNR's obligation under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13 to respond to Mr. Spaulding's request?
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Advisory Opinion 96-011 96-011Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13.05, subdivision 4, and Minnesota Rules Part 1205.1300, how may DHS use and/or disseminate the data which relate to K's commitment as a minor, contained on theData subjects Educational data Law enforcement data Legislative authority and intent Tennessen warning Welfare data #Authority to regulate data practices #Classification at time of request, controls access (13.03, subd. 9) #Commitment pre-petition screening #Firearms background check #Limitation on collection and use of private/confidential data (13.05, subd. 4)
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Advisory Opinion 95-049 95-049If Olmsted County Community Services maintains data about an individual, are legally authorized representatives of that individual entitled to gain access to those data, upon request, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chap…
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Advisory Opinion 95-046 95-046Did H's supervisor act in compliance with Chapter 13 when he disseminated data about H (an employee of Minneapolis Community College) to persons not employed by Minneapolis College? Did H's supervisor act in compliance …Data subjects Educational data Informed consent Personnel data #Data necessary for administration and management of programs (13.05, subd. 3) #Entity determination under 13.072 #Intergovernmental access (13.05, subd. 9) #Necessary to administer a program authorized by law (13.05, subd. 3) #Performance data/evaluations
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Advisory Opinion 95-038 95-038Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13 and Section 626.557, does an individual have the right to gain access to data about her/himself maintained by an agency which has investigated an allegation of maltreatment of a…
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Advisory Opinion 95-035 95-035Is the Brooklyn Park Police Civil Service Commission aData subjects Educational data Informed consent Personnel data Tennessen warning #Civil investigative data (13.39) #Consent needed for new use of data if notice was not given #Data necessary for administration and management of programs (13.05, subd. 3) #Informed consent #Mental impressions (See: Keezer v. Spickard, 493 N.W.2d 614)
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Advisory Opinion 95-031 95-031When an individual supplies private data about her/himself to a government entity and one of the entity's employees disseminates that data to another employee whose work assignment does not reasonably require access to …
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Advisory Opinion 95-028 95-028Is a
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Advisory Opinion 95-026 95-026Is a parent of one of the students involved in the incident entitled to a copy of the sexual harassment report? If so, must any portions of the document be redacted? If so, which specific portions?
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Advisory Opinion 95-020 95-020Did the University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality release private data it maintained about X without his consent, and if so, was that release authorized by Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, or other applicable law?
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Advisory Opinion 95-010 95-010Is X entitled to gain access to data maintained about him by the Olmsted County Community Services Department?
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Advisory Opinion 95-008 95-008When an employee, or former employee, or an agent, or former agent, of an entity subject to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13 possesses work-related data outside of the workplace, are those data government data as defined i…
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Advisory Opinion 95-007 95-007Does Bemidji State University have the authority to require faculty members to provide their Social Security numbers and birth dates for the purposes of student registration, or is this a violation of Minnesota Statutes…
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Advisory Opinion 94-055 94-055As the parent of the five minor children, does the mother have the legal right to the files in Crow Wing County Child Protection? Does the mother have the rights to see any data regarding the father, exclusive of the na…
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Advisory Opinion 94-053 94-053Whether he has the right to gain access to data that has been blanked out by his probation officer.
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Advisory Opinion 94-052 94-052Is X entitled to gain access to data maintained by Beltrami County Social Services concerning the welfare of her minor child, including but not limited to data maintained by child protection? In failing to respond to Ms…
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Advisory Opinion 94-044 94-044By not supplying the custodial parent with the Activity Tracker Record that was supplied to Dr. DeSanctis (the psychologist) which was requested on 6 June 94 and the authorization for release of information which was re…
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Advisory Opinion 94-041 94-041When Buffalo High School Psychologist, Paula Dietz, and Assistant Principal, Mary Loberg, coerced the minor child into believing that in order to be readmitted to school, a psychological evaluation would been to be cond…
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Advisory Opinion 94-040 94-040When an employee of the City of Buffalo didn't know what the classification of a piece of private data was, did that constitute a violation of the minor child's rights by impeding access to government data and not apply…
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Advisory Opinion 94-039 94-039When the Wright County Attorney's Office issued the petition on May 18, 1994, which included the Buffalo Police Report and not the custodial parent's Minnesota Data Practices Act Request of May 6, 1994, did that office …
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Advisory Opinion 94-024 94-024Is the Program in Human Sexuality improperly denying X access to data maintained about him?
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Advisory Opinion 94-017 94-017Whether your office is required by Minnesota Statutes Sections 13.03 and 13.04 to provide her with access to data concerning the County's collection and payment of child support to her?
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Advisory Opinion 94-012 94-012As to the non-government providers and facilities which have to supply data on individual patients pursuant to the rules, is any relationship created which would require them to give the Tennessen Warning? In light of c…
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Advisory Opinion 94-007 94-007Are data about the births of children public data in a public hospital? In his response, Mr. Melchert makes it clear that Ridgeview's position on the release of birth data is not a function of an interpretation of the 1…