Nicole Norfleet reports on yet another lawsuit stemming from alleged misuse of access to the state’s database of driver’s license records:
A Dakota County public defender whose scrutiny of the St. Paul police crime lab led to the unit’s overhaul has sued several cities and counties saying public safety employees illegally accessed her driver’s license information.
In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court, Lauri Traub accused unidentified members of the police departments and sheriff’s offices in St. Paul, Farmington, St. Paul Park, Hastings, Burnsville, Aitkin County, Dakota County and Sherburne County of obtaining personal information from her motor vehicle record about a dozen times since June 2010.
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