Subdivision 1.Private data.

The following data created, collected and maintained by the Office of the Attorney General are private data on individuals:

Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 13.65

  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Data on individuals: means all government data in which any individual is or can be identified as the subject of that data, unless the appearance of the name or other identifying data can be clearly demonstrated to be only incidental to the data and the data are not accessed by the name or other identifying data of any individual. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
  • State agency: means the state, the University of Minnesota, and any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission, authority, district or agency of the state. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.

(a) the record, including but not limited to, the transcript and exhibits of all disciplinary proceedings held by a state agency, board or commission, except in those instances where there is a public hearing;

(b) communications and noninvestigative files regarding administrative or policy matters which do not evidence final public actions;

(c) consumer complaint data, other than those data classified as confidential, including consumers’ complaints against businesses and follow-up investigative materials;

(d) investigative data, obtained in anticipation of, or in connection with litigation or an administrative proceeding where the investigation is not currently active; and

(e) data collected by the Consumer Division of the Attorney General’s Office in its administration of the home protection hot line including: the name, address, and phone number of the consumer; the name and address of the mortgage company; the total amount of the mortgage; the amount of money needed to bring the delinquent mortgage current; the consumer’s place of employment; the consumer’s total family income; and the history of attempts made by the consumer to renegotiate a delinquent mortgage.

Subd. 2.Confidential data.

The following data created, collected and maintained by the Office of the Attorney General are confidential, pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 3: data acquired through communications made in official confidence to members of the attorney general’s staff where the public interest would suffer by disclosure of the data.

Subd. 3.Public data.

Data describing the final disposition of disciplinary proceedings held by any state agency, board, or commission are public, pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 15.