Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission required to maintain a publicly searchable database, and money appropriated.

HF 330 requires the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission to create and maintain a publicly accessible website with a searchable database of criminal sentencing information. The database must include details like case numbers, defendant names, offense types, sentence lengths (both executed and stayed), and whether sentences deviated from standard guidelines - without including non-public data. Users can search by multiple fields (e.g., location, date, crime type), sort results, and download data. This directly affects the public (who gains access to sentencing records) and the Commission (which must build and manage the system), while courts must transmit required sentencing data to the Commission. The bill does not change sentencing laws but makes existing sentencing data publicly available.