# St. Cloud Police Department *Municipal police department of St. Cloud, Minnesota* The St. Cloud Police Department is the police department of the city of [[St. Cloud]], [[Minnesota]]. The project's at-issue record holds one entry on the department, AI-Stearns-096. That entry finds that the department publishes two governing documents, its body-worn camera policy and its patrol union contract, and that no use-of-force controversy, no arbitration reinstatement, and no data-practices dispute involving the department was located.[^1] The entry states its own result in one sentence: "The documents that would enable oversight are public; the events that would require it were not found."[^1] The record shows what the search found. It does not establish that no such events occurred. The entry rests on two city records from the ci.stcloud.mn.us domain, through note 26 of a project dossier dated 2026-09-01. The project tags the entry as a clean negative.[^1] The city documents themselves are not linked in this record. The United States Department of Justice titled its release No. 26-21 (Jan. 14, 2026) *United States Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime*. Attorney General Pamela Bondi certified that case as a matter of general public importance.[^2] The at-issue entry on the St. Cloud department does not connect the department to that action. ## Who The department publishes its body-worn camera policy and the contract governing its patrol union. The at-issue entry identifies both as public documents.[^1] The record located for this article does not name any chief, officer, or other official of the department. It also does not identify who negotiated or approved either document, or when.[^1] ## In the at-issue record - **AI-Stearns-096 (rank 96, shock 45).** This entry is filed in the section *The Jurisdiction Gap & the Unrecorded Record Edition*. It records the department's published body-worn camera policy and patrol union contract alongside the absence of any located use-of-force controversy, arbitration reinstatement, or data-practices dispute. The project frames the entry as recording a clean result on the most-scrutinized institution type in its corpus. The entry carries the tags "scpd" and "gap-G-K11."[^1] - **Comparison within the record.** The state civil rights investigation of a Minnesota police department catalogued in this record concerns another agency. The [[Minnesota Department of Human Rights]] conducted a *Civil Rights Investigation into Minneapolis Police Department*.[^3] No comparable state or federal action involving the St. Cloud department appears in the record.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — anchor of at-issue record AI-Stearns-096, which records the St. Cloud Police Department's public body-worn camera policy and patrol union contract and the absence of a located use-of-force controversy, arbitration reinstatement, or data-practices dispute (source: Kleis_Apex_Dossier_2026-09-01.md note 26; two records, ci.stcloud.mn.us). https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, *United States Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime*, release No. 26-21 (Jan. 14, 2026) — title of the release and the Attorney General's certification of the case as a matter of general public importance. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-department-justice-files-lawsuit-against-minnesotas-affirmative-action-regime [^3]: Minnesota Department of Human Rights, *Civil Rights Investigation into Minneapolis Police Department* — the department's investigation page for the Minneapolis Police Department. https://mn.gov/mdhr/news-community/newsroom/civilrightsupdates.jsp?id=1061-434480