Judiciary provisions policy and technical changes made, including data practices, family law, judiciary policy, guardianships, public defense, and civil law; data classified; and crimes established.
This bill updates Minnesota laws to protect the privacy of judges and other judicial officials by classifying their personal information as private data. It specifically safeguards details such as residential addresses, contact information, and the names of their children or the schools they attend from being posted online by businesses, government entities, or individuals. While the law generally prohibits making this information available on the internet, it includes exceptions for news reporting, information voluntarily shared by the officials themselves, or data requested by the officials. Additionally, the legislation establishes a process allowing judicial officials to request the removal of their personal information if it has already been posted online.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 15, 2024
Last action May 13, 2024
Floor votes · House May 7, 2024
How they voted
71–56
Passed
Total votes 127
May 7, 2024
D
Democratic69
100% Yea
R
Republican58
96% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
14
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Amendments
2
May 13, 2024
Introduced
Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF4271
upper
May 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF4271, now on General Orders
upper
May 9, 2024
Introduced
Introduction and first reading
upper
May 9, 2024
Introduced
Received from House
upper
May 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill was passed
lower
May 7, 2024
Introduced
Amendments offered
lower
Mar 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee report, to adopt as amended
lower
Feb 15, 2024
Introduced
Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
lower
1 primary · 6 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jamie Becker-Finn
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
Co
Brion Curran
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
Co
Cedrick Frazier
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
Co
Kelly Moller
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
Co
Leigh Finke
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
Co
Ron Latz
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
Co
Sandra Feist
DDemocratic-Farmer-Labor
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