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Minnesota Government Data Practices Act makes some information about employees public. Public information includes the following:
Information about the job. Salary, pension, fringe benefits, contract fees, expense reimbursements, job title, job description, dates of employment, work location, work telephone, and payroll documents.
Information about the employee. Education, training, previous work experience, city and county of residence, honors and awards, settlement agreements regarding employment disputes, the existence and status of complaints against the employee, and disciplinary history.
Personnel information that does not fall in a "public" classification generally is private. Examples of private personnel information include performance reviews, teaching evlauations, and personal information such as family information, home address and phone number (unless you included them in the directory), race, and social security number.
As an employee, you generally have a right to any recorded information about you, although there are some exceptions, for example, active audits and legal investigations. If you want to obtain recorded information about you, you can go directly to the department maintaining the information, or contact Susan McKinney, Director, Records and Information Management, at 612-625-3497 or at susanmckinney@mail.ogc.umn.edu.
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