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The Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13) presumes that all government <br />data are public unless a state or federal law says the data are not public. Government data <br />is a term that means all recorded information a government entity has, including paper, <br />email, CD-ROMs, photographs, etc. <br />The Data Practices Act also provides that the City of Lake Elmo must keep all government <br />data in a way that makes it easy for you, as a member of the public, to access public data. <br />You have the right to look at (inspect), free of charge, all public data that we keep. <br />You also have the right to get copies of public data. The Data Practices Act allows us to <br />charge for copies. You have the right to look at data, free of charge, before deciding to <br />request copies. <br />How to Make a Data Request <br />To look at data or request copies of data that the City of Lake Elmo ke <br />eps, make a written <br />request. Make your written request for data to the appropriate individual listed in the Data <br />Practices Contacts document on page eight. You may rhake your written request for data by <br />mail, using the data request form on page ten, <br />•t<z -z I _tb.P_i.2j, _rp", v <br />1. that you, as a member of the public, are making a request for data under the Data <br />Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13. <br />2whether you would like to look at the data, get copies of the data, or both; and <br />3, a clear description of the data you would like to inspect or have copied, <br />