Minnesota Statutes 13.392 – Internal Auditing Data
Subdivision 1.Confidential data or protected nonpublic data.
Data, notes, and preliminary drafts of reports created, collected, and maintained by the internal audit offices of government entities, or persons performing audits for government entities, and relating to an audit or investigation are confidential data on individuals or protected nonpublic data until the final report has been published or the audit or investigation is no longer being pursued actively, except that the data shall be disclosed as required to comply with section 6.67 or 609.456. This section does not limit in any way:
(1) the state auditor’s access to government data of political subdivisions or data, notes, or preliminary drafts of reports of persons performing audits for political subdivisions; or
(2) the public or a data subject’s access to data classified by section 13.43.
Subd. 2.Private data on individuals.
Data on an individual supplying information for an audit or investigation, that could reasonably be used to determine the individual’s identity, are private data on individuals if the information supplied was needed for an audit or investigation and would not have been provided to the internal audit office or person performing audits without an assurance to the individual that the individual’s identity would remain private.
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 13.392
- 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
- Government data: means all data collected, created, received, maintained or disseminated by any government entity regardless of its physical form, storage media or conditions of use. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
- individual: includes a parent or guardian or an individual acting as a parent or guardian in the absence of a parent or guardian, except that the responsible authority shall withhold data from parents or guardians, or individuals acting as parents or guardians in the absence of parents or guardians, upon request by the minor if the responsible authority determines that withholding the data would be in the best interest of the minor. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
- Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, business trust, or a legal representative of an organization. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
- state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44