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Appendix A-20 MU125\11\850810.v2 the access will aid the law enforcement process, promote public safety, or dispel widespread rumor or unrest. Images and recordings, including photographs, video, and audio records, which are part of inactive investigative files and which are clearly offensive to common sensibilities are classified as private or nonpublic data, provided that the existence of the images and recordings shall be disclosed to any person requesting access to the inactive investigative file. Data on court records relating to name changes under Minn. Stat. § 259.10, subd. 2 which is held by a law enforcement agency is confidential data on an individual while an investigation is still active and is private data on an individual when the investigation becomes inactive. Data in arrest warrant indices are classified as confidential data until the defendant has been taken into custody, served with a warrant or appears before the court, except when the law enforcement agency determines that the public purpose is served by making that information public. Data that uniquely describe stolen, lost, confiscated or recovered property are classified as either private data on individuals or nonpublic data depending on the content. Financial records of a program that pays rewards to informants are protected nonpublic data in the case of data not on individuals or confidential data in the case of data on individuals. Data on registered criminal offenders as described in Minn. Stat. § 243.166 are private data on individuals. Data included in a missing children bulletin distributed pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 299C.54 are public data. Data that reflect deliberative processes or investigative techniques of law enforcement agencies are confidential data on individuals or protected nonpublic data, provided that information, reports, or memoranda that have been adopted as the final opinion or justification for a decision of a law enforcement agency are public data. Booking photographs are public data. Data that would reveal the identity of persons who are customers of a licensed pawnbroker, secondhand goods dealer or a scrap metal dealer are private data on individuals. Data describing the property in a regulated transaction with a licensed pawnbroker, secondhand goods dealer or a scrap metal dealer are public. Investigative data that become inactive that consist of a person's financial account number or transaction numbers are private or nonpublic data.