# Hennepin County civil-rights investigation *Civil-rights investigation concerning a Hennepin County, Minnesota, policy, recorded as closed in February 2026.* The **Hennepin County civil-rights investigation** was a civil-rights inquiry into a policy of Hennepin County, [[Minnesota]]. The project's at-issue ledger records that it "was closed in February 2026 after the policy was corrected."[^1] The ledger lists this closure with two other federal matters concerning Minnesota institutions that did not proceed. One is the dismissal of the [[Title VII]] suit against [[Minneapolis Public Schools]]. The other is the dismissal of the in-state tuition suit against the State, which is on appeal.[^1][^2][^3] The record assembled for this article does not identify the investigating agency, the date the investigation opened, the Hennepin County policy at issue, the content of the correction, or the instrument that closed the matter.[^1] The ledger entry rests on three items in a project working file, labelled C8, C9 and C10. C8 and C9 are the Minneapolis Public Schools and in-state tuition cases, which are documented below with their dockets.[^2][^3] C10, the item that would correspond to the Hennepin County matter, is not reproduced in the record.[^1] ## What According to the ledger, the matter was a civil-rights investigation directed at a Hennepin County policy. The ledger states that the investigation ended after that policy was corrected.[^1] The record shows that sequence: a correction, then a closure. It does not establish whether the investigating body issued any finding of violation, or what reasoning it gave for closing the matter.[^1] ## When The closure is dated February 2026, without a day.[^1] Dated federal civil-rights actions concerning Minnesota in the same record place it in sequence: - **30 September 2025:** The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through their Offices for Civil Rights, found Minnesota in noncompliance with [[Title IX]].[^4] - **14 January 2026:** The United States filed *US v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273. The complaint is brought under Title VII and concerns Minnesota Statutes [[§43A.191]]. It states allegations, and the record shows no disposition.[^5] - **February 2026:** The Hennepin County investigation is recorded as closed after the policy was corrected.[^1] - **27 March 2026:** *US v. Walz*, No. 0:25-cv-02668, was dismissed by Judge Menendez. That suit concerned in-state tuition under 8 U.S.C. §1623(a). The case is on appeal.[^3] - **30 March 2026:** The United States filed *US v. Minnesota Dept. of Education et al.*, No. 0:26-cv-02078, under Title IX. The complaint states allegations, and the record shows no disposition.[^6] The Title VII suit against Minneapolis Public Schools is *US v. Board of Directors of Special School District No. 1*, No. 0:25-cv-04571. It is recorded as dismissed, but the date of dismissal is not in the record.[^2] ## In the at-issue record The closure appears in at-issue entry AI-Humphrey-066 of the Humphrey package, in the section *The Waverly Promise & the Boundary County Edition*. The entry is dated to 2026, with its date field blank.[^1] It lists two sources, both of court kind, from the domains clearinghouse.net and justice.gov. Its anchor is the White House fraud page.[^1] The entry groups three outcomes as federal losses: - the dismissal of the Minneapolis Public Schools Title VII suit;[^2] - the March 2026 dismissal of the in-state tuition suit, which the case record dates to 27 March 2026;[^3] - the February 2026 closure of the Hennepin County investigation.[^1] Of the three, only the two court dismissals are matched in the record by a docket number and a case-record source.[^2][^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue ledger, entry AI-Humphrey-066 (2026), anchored to The White House, *Fraud* page — records the February 2026 closure "after the policy was corrected" and its grouping with C8 and C9; underlying item C10 is not in the record. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fraud/ [^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, *release announcing suit against Minneapolis Public Schools* (undated in record) — establishes the Title VII suit, No. 0:25-cv-04571; its dismissal rests on the project's validated claims matrix, row C8. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-minneapolis-public-schools-racial-discrimination-against-teachers [^3]: Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, *US v. Walz*, No. 0:25-cv-02668 (D. Minn.) — establishes the in-state tuition suit under 8 U.S.C. §1623(a), its dismissal on 2026-03-27 (Menendez, J.), and the appeal. https://clearinghouse.net/case/46742/ [^4]: U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Offices for Civil Rights, *US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services find Minnesota violated Title IX* (2025-09-30) — establishes the agencies' Title IX noncompliance finding. https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-and-us-department-of-health-and-human-services-find-minnesota-violated-title-ix [^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, *Complaint, US v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273 (filed 2026-01-14) — establishes the Title VII complaint concerning Minn. Stat. §43A.191, as allegations. https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1423361/dl [^6]: CourtListener, *US v. Minnesota Dept. of Education et al.*, No. 0:26-cv-02078 (filed 2026-03-30) — establishes the docket of the Title IX complaint, as allegations. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73111242/united-states-v-minnesota-department-of-education/