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 Information that is classified as other than “Public” (Private, Confidential,
Nonpublic or Protected Nonpublic) under the Minnesota Government
Data Practices Act (MGDPA) falls within Privacy Restricted Information.
Information classified as other than “Public” can only be used as provided
in the organization’s Privacy Policies and Data Security Policies and can
only be disclosed outside of the organization as described in those policies
or as directed by the Director of Information Technology, Privacy and
Data Security. The organization does not currently maintain Public data as
defined by the MGDPA regarding program participants.

The organization does on occasion work with participant data that is
classified as “Confidential” under the MGDPA. Under the MGDPA,
“Confidential” means data about an individual that is not made public by
statute or federal law applicable to the data and is inaccessible to the
individual subject of that data. Examples of situations where data may be
classified as “Confidential” include information about allegations of fraud
or abuse thought to be perpetrated by the participant. This could arise
during investigations initiated by the organization, government agencies or
law enforcement. If a staff member who is authorized through a
government contract to access government data for the purpose of
providing services and is provided access to this classification of data, the
Staff member must not disclose this information to the participant.

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