--- ## author: Michelle Kenney date: D:20260212165500Z --- 722-1 ## Adopted: ______________MSBA/MASA Model Policy 722 Orig. 2017 Revised: ______________ Rev. 2025 ## 722PUBLIC DATA AND DATA SUBJECT REQUESTS [NOTE: School districts are required by statute to establish procedures consistent with the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act for public data requests and data subject requests.] ## I.PURPOSE The school district recognizes its responsibility relative to the collection, maintenance, and dissemination of public data as provided in state statutes. ## II.GENERAL STATEMENT OF POLICY The school district will comply with the requirements of the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, chapter 13 (MGDPA), and Minnesota Rules, parts 1205.0100- 1205.2000 in responding to requests for public data. ## III.DEFINITIONS ## A.Confidential Data on Individuals Data made not public by statute or federal law applicable to the data and are inaccessible to the individual subject of those data. ## B.Data on Individuals 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. ## C.Data Practices Compliance Officer The data practices compliance official is the designated employee of the school district to whom persons may direct questions or concerns regarding problems in obtaining access to data or other data practices problems. The responsible authority may be the data practices compliance official. ## D.Government Data All data collected, created, received, maintained or disseminated by any government entity regardless of its physical form, storage media or conditions of use. ## E.Individual “Individual” means a natural person. In the case of a minor or an incapacitated person as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 524.5-102, subdivision 6, "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 722-2 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. ## F.Inspection “Inspection” means the visual inspection of paper and similar types of government data. Inspection does not include printing copies by the school district, unless printing a copy is the only method to provide for inspection of the data. For data stored in electronic form and made available in electronic form on a remote a…