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Hennepin County attorney’s office supports administrative subpoena power for wage‑theft investigations
Summary
A senior Hennepin County attorney told the conference committee that adding wage theft to the list of offenses that can be investigated using administrative subpoenas would let county attorneys obtain routine third‑party records (bank, payroll) without burdening local law enforcement. County attorneys' association counsel voiced organizational
Alex Halverson, senior attorney and head of the Worker Protection Unit in the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, told the Public Safety and Judiciary Conference Committee on May 8 that adding wage theft to the list of offenses subject to administrative subpoena authority would improve investigations and conserve law‑enforcement resources.
Halverson said the office already has administrative subpoena authority for certain classes of financial and fraud offenses and that expanding that authority would let county attorneys obtain routine third‑party records — payroll, bank and phone records — directly from institutions. “The administrative piece of it allows us to get what are typically noncontroversial…
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