# Minnesota Government Data Practices Act *Chapter 13 of the Minnesota Statutes, governing government data.* The **Minnesota Government Data Practices Act** is Chapter 13 of the Minnesota Statutes, published by the Minnesota Revisor of Statutes.[^1] Section 13.82, *Law Enforcement Data*, is part of the chapter. It classifies active criminal investigative data as confidential.[^2] In [[Minnesota]] county government, the [[Carver County Attorney's Office]] lists "data privacy compliance under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act" among the duties of its Civil Division.[^3] The record assembled for this subject also cites the Act as a route to public documents. A public comment dated 1 September 2026 states that a staff report and a lease are "requestable under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act."[^1] The record does not establish how many requests have been made under the Act or how they were answered. It also does not carry the chapter's enactment or amendment history by party or date.[^1] ## What The Act is codified as Chapter 13 of the Minnesota Statutes.[^1] Within the chapter, [[§ 13.82]] (*Law Enforcement Data*) classifies active criminal investigative data as confidential.[^2] ## Who Carver County's *Office Overview* page for its county attorney assigns compliance with the Act to the Civil Division. The listed duty is "data privacy compliance under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act."[^3] The same page states that the office has 34 employees, 19 of them attorneys. It describes the [[county attorney]] as serving "in a role that is similar to that of an in-house corporate counsel."[^3] The county publishes an official biography of County Attorney Mark Metz, which lists him on the MCAA Board of Directors.[^4] ## How The public comment describes a records request under the Act as the means of obtaining the staff report and the lease. It states that such a request "costs less than the flyer's print run" and "produces the two numbers the flyer couldn't."[^1] The record does not contain the staff report, the lease, or the two figures. It does not establish whether a request was filed or what any request returned. ## In the at-issue record At-issue pair AI-Anoka-088 (Anoka package, section *The Deflection Mechanism & the Charter-Lease Architecture Edition*) rests on the public comment's statement about the Act. It lists a statute on revisor.mn.gov as its source.[^1] The pair sets that statement beside a March 2025 presidential action, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^5] The pair's stated reason for this anchor is that "the statute that opens the silo is already on the books."[^5] The record does not quote the text of the presidential action and does not establish what it requires of states. ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13* (n.d.) — the chapter constituting the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act; the statutory source listed for at-issue pair AI-Anoka-088, whose public-comment text (Public_Comment_3min_2026-09-01.md) is quoted in the article. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/13 [^2]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minnesota Statutes § 13.82, Law Enforcement Data* (n.d.) — classifies active criminal investigative data as confidential. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/13.82 [^3]: Carver County Attorney's Office, *Office Overview* (n.d.) — Civil Division duties include data privacy compliance under the Act; 34 employees, 19 attorneys; the county attorney's role is described as similar to in-house corporate counsel. https://www.carvercountymn.gov/departments/county-attorney/office-overview [^4]: Carver County, *Mark Metz, County Attorney* (n.d.) — official biography; lists service on the MCAA Board of Directors. https://www.carvercountymn.gov/departments/county-attorney/mark-metz-county-attorney [^5]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — presidential action used as the federal anchor of at-issue pair AI-Anoka-088. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/