It would be troubling enough if the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was not able to provide public records to a family of a victim of a police shooting. But
ST. PAUL, Minn (AP) - The families of five Minnesota men who were killed by police officers announced a lawsuit Thursday to force the Bureau of Crimin.
Once a case is closed, the BCA must review every report, image, audio and video in the file to ensure that information that isn’t public is removed as required under state law, the agency says in response.
The families of five Minnesota men who were killed by police officers announced a lawsuit Thursday to force the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to release its investigative files on their deaths, saying the state agency has failed to comply with Minnesota's open records law. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Ramsey County District Court in St. Paul, says once the investigation into a deadly force incident is completed and a prosecutor decides not to charge the officers, the data legally should be turned over to the families of the deceased within 10 days of them requesting it.