Blog Archive: January 2024​​

​​​BCA knows the importance of keeping your data secure

Jan. 29

When we talk about privacy, what comes to mind? Do you think about closing your curtains? Putting your phone upside down? Here at the Department of Public Safety, our Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) staff think of your data and ways to keep it safe...

​ Join the fight against human trafficking in Minnesota

Jan. 22

Picture this: Your teenage child comes to you one evening. They’re worried because their friend has been missing a lot of school lately, and they just found out the friend is being forced to work for a friend of the family instead — for no pay. Is the friend being trafficked for their labor? Do you know how to report it if they were? ​​

​​​​​Toward Zero Deaths initiative looking at future of transportation: automated vehicles

Jan. 18​

Picture this: You’re a first responder arriving at a vehicle crash. Your first move is to assess the condition of the people in the vehicle, but when you walk up to it, there is no door handle. It’s a new vehicle with automated doors. Would you know what to do?​

​​​​ Troopers race against the clock to save a heart          ​tr​ansplant patient’s life

Jan. 16​

In an emergency, the clock is ticking. Working fast to save a life is all in a day’s work for our Minnesota State Patrol troopers. However, in late October, a team of troopers took on a new challenge, working with Mayo Clinic Health System to get a donor heart​...

​ Deadly St. Paul fire serves as reminder to make an escape plan

Jan. 11

A deadly overnight fire in St. Paul on J​an. 3 trapped seven people in their home while they slept. Although the St. Paul Fire Department rescued the six children and one adult from the home, all were hospitalized from the side effects of smoke inhalation. Four of the children died due...

​​​​Services revving up at new DVS exam stations in Marshall and Buffalo​​

Jan. 8

We have some good news for wannabe drivers in Lyon and Wright countie​s: It will soon be easier to get an appointment to take your driver’s exam. Our Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) division opened two new exam stations in Buffalo and Marshall late last year...

Work moving forward on expungements tied to cannabis and Clean Slate legislation

Jan. 4

Our Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is hard at work preparing to implement a pair of decisions by the Minnesota Legislature that mandated expungement of certain criminal history records, removing them from public view. The Adult-Use Cannabis Act and the Clean Slate Act...​

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