Children’s Minnesota, the state’s largest pediatric health system, is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking medical records from every patient under 19 who received gender-affirming care at its hospitals and clinics, KARE 11 reported Wednesday afternoon.
In court filings dated May 4, Children’s Minnesota sought to block parts of the subpoena asking for records about patients’ “homes, families, schooling, peers, mental health, reproductive health, gender identity, sexuality, treatment by others, and more,” and argued it does not meet the legal standards for obtaining private medical records, the Star Tribune reported.
“The requests … are not aimed at investigating any such offense,” Children’s said in its court filing, according to the Star Tribune. “Instead, they are aimed at regulating (and chilling) a particular type of medical care, with the goal of eliminating it nationwide.”
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In a news conference on Thursday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced he will nominate Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara to serve a second term, MPR News reported.
The Minnesota Senate passed the bipartisan “HOA Bill of Rights” Wednesday, which limits the power of homeowners associations to levy fines and foreclose on properties, sets rules regarding conflicts-of-interest and creates a path of the dissolution of some HOAs, the Minnesota Reformer reported. The bill is now heading to Gov. Tim Walz for approval.
After an eight-month audit, the Minnesota Department of Education found the Duluth Area Learning Center to be out of compliance, citing 20 issues, including operating a four-day work week without approval, staff without appropriate licensure providing instruction and students taking their own attendance via Google Forms, WDIO reported Wednesday. The DALC will lose its current status and must operate as an alternative learning program, which means programs using targeted services money, including summer school, will stop on July 1.
The director of Minnesota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office, Guadalupe Lopez, has been fired after serving in the role for less than a year and just two days after the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives, the Cloquet Pine Journal reported Thursday.
Lopez, an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, told MPR News she was “shocked” by the move, adding, “I think that it is hard for an Indigenous person to be in state systems. The cultural competency definitely wasn’t there.”
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Minnesotans could see between 12 to 16 days of wildfire smoke and 4 to 6 days of unhealthy ozone levels this summer, according to meteorologists for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Gearing up for the May 9 Minnesota Fishing Opener? The Department of Natural Resources expects strong walleye numbers in southern Minnesota due to warmer conditions and shallower waters than lakes up north, KEYC reported Thursday.
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