A post by Karen Cole At last!   Minnesota courts are making many district court records available online.  You can now search by case number for many district court documents filed after July 1, 2015.   Public court documents will now be accessible online for most types of civil and criminal case cases.  Only court-generated documents will […]

A post from Karen R. Cole: The Problem: Thousands of legal documents are filed in Minnesota courts every year incorrectly filing confidential information in a way that is publicly accessible. About 100 noncompliant documents are filed each week.  Over 400 documents with confidential information were improperly filed as public documents in one week alone.  That […]

There is always a flurry of bills at the end of a legislative session.  One bill passed this past May made some changes to the statutes on guardians and conservators.  The legislation required that a confidential “bill of particulars” be filed with the trial court that would lay out the confidential or nonpublic documents filed […]