3E Relating to data practices; requiring the protection of certain data included in a state auditor report from unlawful disclosure; making technical changes to government data access and juvenile traffic investigation reports provisions; increasing government liability amounts; classifying certain metropolitan airport parking space customer data as nonpublic data; allowing educational data sharing between the department of education and the office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations for the purpose of analyzing and improving school district instruction; prohibiting the use of social security numbers on the face of mailings by government entities; classifying data on applicants to boards, task forces, commissions, committees, advisory groups and other public bodies as private; providing for data on use and storage of explosives; providing for the effect of background checks on individuals by school hiring authorities, requiring school hiring authorities to notify individuals terminated or denied employment as a result of a background check; authorizing a school hiring authority to contract with a third party to conduct school background checks; modifying certain data disclosure requirements by the department of corrections for preconfinement employment tracking of committed offenders for case planning purposes under the Minnesota unemployment insurance law; authorizing the state fire marshal to share nonpublic data related to the storage or use of explosives or blasting agents with law enforcement and government entities; regulating business screening services; defining certain terms; restricting business screening services from disseminating criminal records except under certain conditions; providing for correction and deletion of records; requiring a business screening service disseminating criminal records to include notice and date information was collected; providing civil remedies and relationship to the fair credit reporting act (FCRA), providing service of process and jurisdiction of courts for actions involving violations; relating to Hennepin county; authorizing a nonprofit organization providing physician services and participating in an electronic exchange of health records to share certain medical data under the Minnesota government data practices act; classifying certain metropolitan airport parking space customer data as nonpublic data; eliminating requirement of social security number information in petitions for dissolution of marriage or legal separation; requiring a separate document containing social security numbers in proceedings relating to child support and spousal maintenance issues
(Ch. 315, 2008)