# Minnesota Truth Council *Minnesota governor's council established by Executive Order 26-05 (2026)* The Minnesota Truth Council is a council created by [[Executive Order 26-05]], dated March 25, 2026. The record describes it as the Governor's "Truth" Council and gives its subject as two federal immigration operations.[^1] The Governor's Office issued a press release on the order.[^2] The record's source inventory for the council lists the statutory text of Minn. Stat. § 4.035[^3] and an agency listing in the Secretary of State's commissions-and-appointments registry.[^4] The record does not state the council's membership, budget, reporting deadline or any findings. It also does not establish whether the council has issued a report.[^1] ## Establishment The council rests on an executive order and not on a session law. The order is dated March 25, 2026,[^1] and the Governor's newsroom announced it in a separate release.[^2] The record pairs the order with Minn. Stat. § 4.035 as operative statutory text.[^3] The council's appointments listing appears on the Secretary of State's commissions-and-appointments site under agency number 398.[^4] ## Precedents in the Minnesota record The record places the order in a sequence of earlier [[Minnesota]] "truth" and acknowledgment documents issued by state and local bodies. - **Saint Paul, 2021.** The Saint Paul City Council passed a reparations resolution that included an apology. According to the record's companion analysis, the resolution stated its intended results in the future tense, and the harm report it called for had not been written.[^5] - **[[Minneapolis]].** According to the record's companion analysis, the city's "Truth and Reconciliation" process spent $298,818 on two salaries and produced no report. The same analysis says the process was renamed from a "Commission" to a "Process."[^6] The city's legislative system holds the working group's *Final Recommendations*.[^6] - **2023 TRUTH Report.** The University of Minnesota and the [[Minnesota Indian Affairs Council]] released the *[[TRUTH Project]] Report* on April 11, 2023.[^7] The record quotes the report's phrase "shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources" and confirms it against the report on the agency's site. The Indian Affairs Council is the report's institutional home.[^7][^8] The record's source inventory for the "truth" genre also includes material on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission published by that country's Department of Justice. This includes a 1995 act and a 1998 Commission statement.[^9][^10] ## In the Minnesota record ### Who - Issued by the Office of the Governor of Minnesota.[^1][^2] ### What - A council on two federal immigration operations, established by executive order.[^1] ### When - March 25, 2026: Executive Order 26-05 is dated.[^1] - April 11, 2023: the TRUTH Project Report is released.[^7] - 2021: the Saint Paul reparations resolution passes.[^5] ## Notes [^1]: Office of the Governor of Minnesota, *Executive Order 26-05* (March 25, 2026) — the order creating the council and stating its subject. https://mn.gov/governor/assets/Executive%20Order%2026-05_tcm1055-735580.pdf [^2]: Office of the Governor of Minnesota, *Press release on Executive Order 26-05* — the Governor's announcement of the order. https://mn.gov/governor/newsroom/press-releases/?id=1055-735583 [^3]: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. § 4.035* — statutory text listed in the record's chain of custody for the order. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/4.035 [^4]: Minnesota Secretary of State, *Commissions and Appointments, Agency Details 398* — state appointments listing in the record's chain of custody for the council. https://commissionsandappointments.sos.mn.gov/Agency/Details/398 [^5]: City of Saint Paul, *City Council reparations legislative record* (2021) — the Saint Paul reparations resolution. https://www.stpaul.gov/department/city-council/city-council-reparations-efforts/city-council-reparations-legislative-0 [^6]: City of Minneapolis, *Truth and Reconciliation Working Group Final Recommendations* — the city's truth and reconciliation process record. https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCAV2/32524/Truth-and-Reconciliation-Working-Group-Final-Recommendations.pdf [^7]: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, *TRUTH Project* — the 2023 University of Minnesota / MIAC report. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/truth-project/ [^8]: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, *Agency homepage* — the institutional home of the TRUTH Report. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/ [^9]: Republic of South Africa, Department of Justice, *Truth and Reconciliation Commission* — the Commission's official site. https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/ [^10]: Republic of South Africa, Department of Justice, *Act 34 of 1995* (1995) — legislation in the record's "truth"-genre inventory. https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1995-034.pdf