Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 299C · 75 active provisions
Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2014 c 212 art 4 s 3] Subd. 2. Division of Department of Public Safety. A division in the Department of Public Safety to be known as the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is hereby created, under the supervision and control of the superintendent of criminal apprehension, who shall be appointed b…
The superintendent, with the approval of the commissioner of public safety, from time to time, shall make such rules and adopt such measures as the superintendent deems necessary, within the provisions and limitations of sections 299C.03 to 299C.08, 299C.10, 299C.105, 299C.11, 299C.17, 299C.18, and 299C.21, to secure t…
It shall be the duty of this division to collect, and preserve as a record of the bureau, information concerning the number and nature of offenses known to have been committed in the state, of the legal steps taken in connection therewith from the inception of the complaint to the final discharge of the defendant, and…
(a) The superintendent must prepare an annual report for the public and the legislature on the Minnesota Fusion Center (MNFC) that includes general information about the MNFC; the types of activities it monitors; the scale of information it collects; the local, state, and federal agencies with which it shares informati…
It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, chiefs of police, prison wardens, superintendents of hospitals for persons with mental illnesses, reformatories, and correctional schools, probation and parole officers, school attendance officers, coroners, county attorneys, court clerks, the commissioner of public safety, the com…
Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Fraud involving state funded or administered programs or services" includes any violation of section 609.445, 609.465, 609.466, 609.52, 609.5523, 609.611, 609.651, 609.7475, or 609.821 involving a state agenc…
Subdivision 1. Definitions. The terms used in this section have the meanings given them in this subdivision: (a) "Bomb disposal unit" means a commissioner-approved unit consisting of persons who are trained and equipped to dispose of or neutralize bombs or other similar hazardous explosives and who are employed by a mu…
Subdivision 1. Grants. The commissioner of public safety shall make grants to local officials for the following purposes: (1) the cooperative investigation of cross jurisdictional criminal activity relating to the possession and sale of controlled substances; (2) receiving or selling stolen goods; (3) participating in…
Subdivision 1. Fund created; advisory group. A crime information reward fund is created as an account in the state treasury. Money appropriated to the account is available to pay rewards as directed by the commissioner of public safety, in consultation with the attorney general, under this section. The attorney general…
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shall make every effort for a period of 90 days after the seizure or recovery of abandoned or stolen property to return the property to the lawful owner or to the sheriff of the county from which it was stolen. Any such property held by the bureau for more than 90 days, in case the o…
The superintendent and each employee in the bureau whom the superintendent shall designate, before entering upon the performance of duties under sections 299C.03 to 299C.08, 299C.10, 299C.105, 299C.11, 299C.17, 299C.18, and 299C.21, shall take the usual oath.
The bureau shall install systems for identification of criminals, including the fingerprint system, the modus operandi system, and such others as the superintendent deems proper. The bureau shall keep a complete record and index of all information received in convenient form for consultation and comparison. The bureau…
Subdivision 1. Establishment. The bureau shall administer and maintain a computerized criminal gang investigative data system for the purpose of assisting criminal justice agencies in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity by gang members. The system consists of data on individuals whom law enforcement…
Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the terms in this subdivision have the meanings given. (b) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. (c) "Questioned identity" means an individual's identity that is associated with another person's records when the individual's identity is use…
The superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shall maintain a computerized data system relating to individuals required to register as predatory offenders under section 243.166. To the degree feasible, the system must include the data required to be provided under section 243.166, subdivisions 4, 4a, and 4…
Subdivision 1. Access to data on juveniles. (a) The bureau shall administer and maintain the computerized juvenile history record system based on sections 260B.171 and 260C.171 and other statutes requiring the reporting of data on juveniles. The data in the system are private data as defined in section 13.02, subdivisi…
(a) The superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shall maintain a computerized data system relating to petty misdemeanor and misdemeanor offenses that may become eligible for expungement pursuant to section 609A.015 and which do not require fingerprinting pursuant to section 299C.10 and are not linked to a…
Subdivision 1. Required fingerprinting. (a) Sheriffs, peace officers, and community corrections agencies operating secure juvenile detention facilities shall take or cause to be taken immediately fingerprints and thumbprints, photographs, distinctive physical mark identification data, information on any known aliases o…
Subdivision 1. Required collection of biological specimen for DNA testing. (a) Sheriffs, peace officers, and community corrections agencies operating secure juvenile detention facilities shall take or cause to be taken biological specimens for the purpose of DNA analysis as defined in section 299C.155, of the following…
Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) As used in this section, the terms in this subdivision have the meanings given. (b) "Forensic laboratory" has the meaning given in section 299C.157, subdivision 1, clause (2). (c) "Patient" has the meaning given in section 144.291, subdivision 2, paragraph (g), and means a person who con…
Subdivision 1. Identification data other than DNA. (a) Each sheriff and chief of police shall furnish the bureau, upon such form as the superintendent shall prescribe, with such fingerprints and thumbprints, photographs, distinctive physical mark identification data, information on known aliases and street names, and o…
The superintendent shall immediately notify the appropriate entity or individual when a disposition record for a felony, gross misdemeanor, or targeted misdemeanor is received that cannot be linked to an arrest record.
(a) By January 1, 1996, every county shall, in the manner provided in either clause (1) or (2), make warrant information available to other users of the criminal justice data communications network as defined in section 299C.46: (1) the county shall enter the warrant information in the warrant file maintained by the Bu…
Every peace officer shall keep or cause to be kept a permanent written record, in such form as the superintendent may prescribe, of all felonies reported to or discovered by the officer within the officer's jurisdiction and of all warrants of arrest for felonies and search warrants issued to the officer in relation to…
Upon receipt of information data as to any arrested person, the bureau shall immediately ascertain whether the person arrested has a criminal record or is a fugitive from justice, and shall at once inform the arresting officer of the facts ascertained, including references to any juvenile or adult court disposition dat…