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Joel Hansen, director of government affairs for Associated Builders and Contractors, told the committee the proposal would expand existing authority used in other financial‑crime investigations and asked for clearer drafting. Hansen said the draft (article 6, r 1, lines 103.16–105.2) uses phrases such as “other person” and “other records that in any way relate to wages or other income” that he said are undefined and risk overbreadth; he also noted the change would move some investigations from the search‑warrant standard to an administrative subpoena standard that does not require probable cause in the same way a warrant does.

Richard Kajewski, government affairs director for the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters, urged the committee to consider the expansion because wage‑theft cases often take years to assemble and victims continue to suffer while enforcement proceeds. “These cases take far too long to resolve, and it’s at the expense of more and more victims,” Kajewski said, describing frequent on‑site complaints and the time needed to collect affidavits, payroll records and video evidence.

Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, described wage‑theft work as often “very much record driven.” Evans said administrative subpoena authority can let investigators “quickly sift through the information provided to determine whether or not we do believe a crime is occurring” and may allow investigators to clear nonprosecutable complaints faster. He emphasized, however, that the BCA was not advancing the policy change itself in committee testimony and that multiple state agencies (Department of Labor and Industry, Commerce, BCA) share responsibilities for civil and criminal aspects of wage violations.

Committee members probed whether an administrative subpoena would produce records a court‑issued search warrant could not. Counsel and nonpartisan staff said the draft limits administrative subpoenas to records “relevant to an ongoing, legitimate law‑enforcement investigation,” and noted the statute currently attaches a probable‑cause specification only for welfare fraud and identity‑theft administrative subpoenas. Several senators suggested targeted drafting to avoid overly broad authority: tightening definitions (for example, clarifying “other person”), specifying categories of records, or permitting administrative subpoenas only after preliminary factual corroboration.

Those testifying listed records that commonly support wage‑theft cases: payroll registers, bank and credit‑card records, workers’‑compensation filings, contracts and transactional documents. Kajewski and other witnesses described cases in which employer records and video evidence were necessary to document systemic underpayment or misclassification.

Members indicated interest in narrow, workable drafting that would speed investigations but preserve constitutional protections and due process. The committee did not adopt final language during the meeting and agreed to further consultation among stakeholders and counsel.

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Proponents said the change would reduce redundant redaction work and speed the exchange of evidence; law enforcement raised privacy and operational concerns. Joel Carlson, representing the Minnesota Association for Justice, told the committee the measure aims “quite frankly [to be] a cost savings to local government” by avoiding repeated redactions that are ultimately undone by court orders.

Carlson said the proposal is limited. The draft language (article 11, r 12, section beginning lines 169.27–170.22) requires a written request and an accompanying accident report and applies only to the persons statutorily entitled to an accident report — the people involved in the crash, their insurers, counsel, or next of kin. He said the bill preserves exceptions for active investigations and other legal privacy protections and would restrict use of the footage to “that claim or as court evidence.” Carlson cited a 2015 state decision he described as Burks v. Metropolitan Council as the legal background for his view that subjects are entitled to the data.

Colonel Christina Bogojevic, colonel of the Minnesota State Patrol, told the committee the patrol has concerns about workload and privacy. “Many times those videos show people at their worst times, the worst time in their life,” she said, noting current data‑classification rules require redaction when subjects do not consent. She said even if the patrol could permissively release footage, staff would still have to review video for exceptions (juveniles, undercover officers, CJIS data and similar) and that the draft lacks an explicit liability clause for improper downstream dissemination.

Nonpartisan staff reported a preliminary fiscal note from the Department of Public Safety estimating an initial cost of about $4,000,000 and roughly $3,304,000 annually thereafter for workload associated with the proposal, which drew questions from committee members about the assumptions behind that figure.

Committee members debated two related issues: (1) whether releasing footage pre‑litigation saves net work or merely shifts when the review occurs, and (2) how strongly the bill should limit recipients’ use of the footage. Senator Lutz and other members described the tradeoff between avoiding redundant redaction work and protecting privacy, and suggested the bill could be narrowed to a litigation‑focused exception or to permit counsel to view footage without receiving copies.

Supporters said the proposal does not create a new right to access data; rather, it seeks to streamline a process that often ends, they said, with an unredacted court order after judicial balancing under the Government Data Practices Act (chapter 13). Law‑enforcement witnesses agreed courts can order disclosure under discovery, but emphasized the operational challenge of reviewing large volumes of video. The colonel estimated a typical basic traffic crash generates about 30 minutes of body‑camera review time per trooper and said injury or fatal crashes multiply that workload by the number of officers on scene.

The committee noted the bill was introduced in the House as House File 2938 and was not heard there before the conference deadlines; members agreed to continue work on drafting clarifications, including whether viewing rights (without copies) or stronger downstream protections and liability language could address privacy and operational concerns.

Committee staff and testifiers said they would continue to discuss refinements in the days before the end of session.

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• Firearms ballistics reporting (Senate language, article 2, r 24): Senator Lats moved to adopt language requiring law‑enforcement agencies to register for the eTrace system and to report recovered or confiscated firearms. The committee approved an amendment that changes the operative phrasing so that, when an expended shell casing is recovered or confiscated, the agency must “as soon as practicable, arrange to have the ballistics information submitted to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.” The motion carried on a voice vote.

• AI and child sexual‑abuse material (Senate language, article 4): Senator Seaburger moved to adopt language (article 4, r 22, sections 20–21) that would add AI‑generated content to the statutory definition of child sexual‑abuse material; the committee adopted an amendment inserting the words “and is obscene” after “conduct” on page 79, line 24. The motion carried on a voice vote.

Both motions were recorded in the transcript as adopted by voice vote; no roll‑call tallies were taken or recorded in the hearing transcript.

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Conference committee considers giving county attorneys administrative subpoena authority for wage‑theft probes

Conference committee hears bill to let accident parties obtain unredacted crash videos

Conference committee approves two policy provisions by voice vote