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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota prohibits schools from sharing parent contact details as public directory data
Last action · April 2, 2025: Second readingSponsors: Sandra Feist and 4 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota restricts educational agencies and institutions from designating a parent's home address, phone number, email address, or other personal contact information as publicly available , taking effect immediately upon final enactment for K-12 schools.
Parents of K-12 students will have their personal contact details legally classified as private data rather than public information that schools could otherwise disclose without individual consent.
- Minnesota Statutes section 13.32 governs educational data privacy under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Parents and guardians in Minnesota K-12 schools
Their home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and personal contact details are classified as private data and cannot be designated as public directory information.
Minnesota K-12 school districts and educational institutions
They must alter data practices to ensure parent contact information is treated as private data and cannot be released as public directory information.
Key Facts
- School districts and educational institutions are prohibited from designating a parent's home address, telephone number, email address, or other personal contact information as directory information.
- The restriction against publishing parent contact information does not apply to postsecondary institutions.
- Educational agencies and institutions must still share personal student or parent contact information with the Minnesota Department of Education when required for federal reporting.
- Schools may share personal student or parent contact information for students in special education with the Department of Employment and Economic Development for postsecondary transition planning and coordination.
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- Starting the day following final enactment, parent contact information subject to the law must be treated as private data regardless of previous designations.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the House floor.
Procedural history
7 actions- Apr 2, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading
- Apr 2, 2025HouseCommittee report, to adopt as amended
- Mar 20, 2025HouseAuthor added Gottfried
- Mar 17, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Education Policy
- Feb 17, 2025HouseAuthor added Virnig
- Feb 13, 2025HouseAuthors added Sencer-Mura and Curran
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- Feb 10, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
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Shift in Parent Data Classification
The bill removes the previous provision allowing parent data to be treated as directory information if school district procedures were followed, replacing it with a strict prohibition on designating parent contact info as directory data.
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www.revisor.mn.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 50)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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