# Crime Prevention and Public Safety *Committee of the Minnesota Senate on which Senator David Kleis held a seat.* Crime Prevention and Public Safety is a committee of the [[Minnesota Senate]]. The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library lists it among the committee assignments of David Kleis. Kleis represented Senate District 16 from 1995 to 2002 and District 15 from 2003 to 2005.[^1] The committee enters the Minnesota record through one at-issue item. That item sets Kleis's Senate tenure and his seats on this committee and on [[Children, Families and Learning]] against the chief-authored legislation that can be confirmed in the public record. The project's dossier counts that legislation as two bills.[^2] The record in the pack does not show what the committee itself reported, heard or enacted.[^1] ## Who David Kleis's committee assignments included Crime Prevention and Public Safety and Children, Families and Learning, according to the Legislative Reference Library. The same record lists him as Assistant Minority Leader in the 82nd and 83rd Legislatures. It also records a B.A. from [[St. Cloud State University]] and service in the [[U.S. Air Force]] and Air Force Reserve.[^1] ## When The Library records Kleis's Senate service as 1995 to 2002 in District 16 and 2003 to 2005 in District 15.[^1] ## How many - The Legislative Reference Library credits Kleis with 3,969 legislative days.[^1] - The project's dossier says it checked the following against the Revisor's records. It lists two chief-authored Senate bills.[^2] - SF 1787 (2004) required local-government employers to permit payroll by direct deposit. It was enacted as Chapter 292, effective August 1, 2004, and its House companion was authored by Rep. Jim Knoblach. - SF 1927 (2001) appropriated funds for a St. Cloud State University / ISD 742 collaborative to recruit, prepare and mentor future teachers in the St. Cloud area. - The same dossier lists one co-authorship, SF 496 (1999). That bill extended the time period for financial-institution search warrants.[^2] ## In the at-issue record The at-issue item AI-Stearns-054 appears in the section *The Jurisdiction Gap & the Unrecorded Record Edition*. It covers ten years in the Minnesota Senate with seats on Crime Prevention and Public Safety and on Children, Families and Learning. It then states that the chief-authored output reachable in the public record is a payroll direct-deposit bill and a teacher-pipeline appropriation.[^2] The item does not claim a complete record. According to the dossier, a complete author history requires an interactive Revisor query that was not completed. The dossier logs that open question as gap G-K1. In the item's words, "What is verified is verified; nothing is asserted beyond it."[^2] The item is anchored to a March 2025 presidential action on eliminating information silos. The item's stated reason for the anchor is that a legislature whose own output is not easily searchable presents a records problem.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, *Legislators Past & Present*, record for David Kleis — Senate District 16 (1995–2002) and District 15 (2003–2005); Assistant Minority Leader, 82nd–83rd Legislatures; 3,969 legislative days; committee assignments including Crime Prevention and Public Safety and Children, Families and Learning; B.A., St. Cloud State University; U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve service. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?id=10326 [^2]: Kleis Apex Dossier (2026-09-01), §II.B, *The legislative output actually verified* — the validated project dossier, which reports checking SF 1787 (2004), SF 1927 (2001) and SF 496 (1999) against the Revisor's records, and logs gap G-K1. The pack carries no Revisor URL for these bills. [^3]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — the presidential action cited as the anchor of at-issue item AI-Stearns-054. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/