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65 Section V: Rights of Public Access SECTION VI YOUR RIGHTS AS THE SUBJECT OF GOVERNMENT DATA The Minnesota Government Data Practices Act is a law that gives you important rights when we collect, create, keep, use or release data about you, and controls how we collect, use, and release data about you. An important note about who may exercise your rights The law defines an individual as a living human being and gives every individual all of the rights discussed in this [section] [document]. If you are a minor (which means that you are not yet eighteen years old), your parents or your guardian usually have the same rights as you do. This means that each of your parents or your guardian usually can look at and have copies of information we keep about you. Usually, they each have the right to give their consent to release the data about you. They each can challenge the accuracy and completeness of the data about you. If you have no parents, or if your parents are not a part of your life, then the person who is caring for you has these rights. In some cases, your parent or guardian does not have these rights. For example, we won't let your parent(s) or guardian exercise the rights the law gives you if there is a court order that takes these rights away from them. The court order might be about a divorce, separation, custody or some other matter, or it might take away the parental rights of your parent(s). Sometimes a state or federal law says that we can't let your parents see information about you. If you have been appointed as the legal guardian for someone, you may exercise that individual's rights under the MGDPA. To do so, you must show proof of your appointment as legal guardian. The law controls how we collect, keep, use and release data about you. We can collect, keep, use and release private and confidential data about you only when a state or federal law allows or requires us to do it. The law also says we can collect, keep, use and release private and confidential data about you only if we need to in order to do our job. The law says we have to give you a notice when we ask you to give us data about yourself. When we ask you to give us private or confidential data about yourself, we will give you a notice. The notice sometimes is called a Tennessen warning notice . The notice tells you these things: • We will tell you why we are collecting the data from you and how we plan to use the data. • If there is a law that says you have to give us the data, we will tell you that. We also will tell you if you do not have to give us the data. . • We will tell you what might happen (consequences) to you if you give us the data. July, 2000 Model Policy: Access to Government Data & Rights of Subjects Data