1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to access to criminal justice information; modifying provisions 
1.3 	governing public access to criminal history data; amending Minnesota Statutes 
1.4 	2007 Supplement, section 13.87, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 13.87, subdivision 1, is 
1.7 	amended to read:
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Criminal history data. (a) Definition. For purposes of this 
1.9 	subdivision, "criminal history data" means all data maintained in criminal history 
1.10 	records compiled by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and disseminated through 
1.11 	the criminal justice information system, including, but not limited to fingerprints, 
1.12 	photographs, identification data, arrest data, prosecution data, criminal court data, custody 
1.13 	and supervision data. 
1.14 	For purposes of this subdivision, "violent crime" has the meaning given in section 
1.15 	624.712, subdivision 5.
1.16 	(b)  Classification. Criminal history data maintained by agencies, political 
1.17 	subdivisions and statewide systems are classified as private, pursuant to section 13.02, 
1.18 	subdivision 12, except that data created, collected, or maintained by the Bureau of 
1.19 	Criminal Apprehension that identify an individual who was convicted of a crime, the 
1.20 	offense of which the individual was convicted, associated court disposition and sentence 
1.21 	information, controlling agency, and confinement information are public data for 15 years
1.22 	the following time periods after the discharge of the sentence imposed for the offense.:
1.23 	(1) 15 years for a felony violent crime;
1.24 	(2) ten years for a felony nonviolent crime or a gross misdemeanor violent crime;
2.1 	(3) seven years for a gross misdemeanor nonviolent crime or a misdemeanor violent 
2.2 	crime; and
2.3 	(4) five years for a misdemeanor nonviolent crime.
2.4 	If an individual's name or other identifying information is erroneously associated 
2.5 	with a criminal history and a determination is made through a fingerprint verification that 
2.6 	the individual is not the subject of the criminal history, the name or other identifying 
2.7 	information must be redacted from the public criminal history data. The name and other 
2.8 	identifying information must be retained in the criminal history and are classified as 
2.9 	private data.
2.10 	The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shall provide to the public at the central office 
2.11 	of the bureau the ability to inspect in person, at no charge, through a computer monitor the 
2.12 	criminal conviction data classified as public under this subdivision.
2.13 	(c)  Limitation. Nothing in paragraph (a) or (b) shall limit public access to data 
2.14 	made public by section 13.82.