Lawmakers still can’t agree on DWI reforms and voting rights for felons.
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Alleged child care fraud biggest in state history
A husband and wife from Fridley allegedly bilked the state of more than $4 million as part of a complex scheme in which they recruited aid-eligible parents to enroll their children in day care, created no show jobs for the parents to satisfy work requirements and submitted false records to the Department of Human Services.
Read More »Senate passes phone surveillance bill
Both chambers have rejected provision requiring search warrant, a key provision pushed by privacy advocates.
Read More »House, Senate differ on phone-tracking bills
A key question remaining is whether police should be required to obtain a search warrant before deploying a Kingfish, Stingray or other such device in a criminal investigation.
Read More »Lawmakers debate surveillance bills
A House panel on Tuesday took four hours of testimony on a raft of bills aimed at restricting the government’s use of cellphone tracking devices and drones.
Read More »Phone tracking debate to get House hearing
A recent KARE-11 report about the secretive use of cellphone tracking devices by Minnesota law enforcement agencies has sparked calls for hearings from lawmakers and outraged open-government advocates.
Read More »Police ‘Spam cans’ target Maplewood car thieves
Right out of the box, Maplewood's new anti-vehicle-theft technology has proved its effectiveness. The system - essentially three camera-bearing, Spam-can shaped boxes hanging off the city's unmarked squad car - nabbed a stolen vehicle two days after it was deployed earlier this month.
Read More »Gang database work group appointed
Michael Campion, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, has named a 20-member panel to study the issue of gang databases maintained by law-enforcement agencies. The work group will be co-chaired by Don Gemberling, a veteran advocate of government transparency, and David Johnson, executive director of Minnesota Justice Information Services.
Read More »PIM interview: Data privacy activist Rich Neumeister is always on the case
[This interview first ran in the April 10, 2009 issue of the PIM Weekly Report.]Among the hordes of lobbyists who ply their trade at the ...
Read More »Criminal intelligence data or control files? New BCA proposal offers glimpse of major expansion in snooping
“Criminal intelligence data may be shared with: …(2) a law enforcement agency to charge a person with a crime or allege that a juvenile is ...
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