Albert Lea Police Department

What the audit said

Zero findings recorded. The entire report is one page, and it clears the department on all seven statutory requirements with the identical phrase "No discrepancies noted" repeated seven times — no narrative analysis, no recommendations, no exceptions. Affirmative statements include that ALPR data "is only accessible to persons who have completed department approved training and whose work assignment reasonably requires access," that the department "does not monitor or track individuals...using ALPR, nor have they applied for a warrant to do so," and that it "has had no breaches of security." Program at the time: 2 mobile units in patrol vehicles, no fixed cameras, PIPS Technology with BOSS4 software, 30-day retention.

FinePrint notes

NEW ROW — found 2026-10-01 during the weekly rotation's Part 2 hunt (searching Lake City PD, which turned up nothing; this surfaced from an LRL edocs catalog record, OCLC 1275779628). No prior Albert Lea row existed, placeholder or otherwise. Verified: LRL doc 210879 resolves, the letterhead names Albert Lea Police Department, and the report cites Minn. Stat. 13.824 — not the 13.825/626.8473 body-worn camera statute. Dates: fieldwork 2021-06-11 recorded as Audit Conducted Date; the auditor's report date is 2021-10-02 and is deliberately NOT used (Lembcke reports carry both; the Roseville correction established fieldwork as the field's meaning). Audit period 2019-03-21 to 2021-05-31. Tested Live System left UNCHECKED. The report says the auditor reviewed system-generated BOSS4 data and queried stored records, but never states whether that was live-console access or data furnished by the department. Following the Rochester LOGIS precedent, ambiguity does not earn the green flag. SIGNIFICANCE — this is the shortest report in the table: a one-page document clearing an agency against seven statutory requirements with seven instances of "No discrepancies noted." It is also the earliest Lembcke filing on record here (previous earliest was 2025), which pushes the auditor's documented output pattern back four years and shows the template predates the Flock era entirely. The 2021 program was 2 mobile PIPS units, not fixed cameras. On BCA LPR List left unchecked: Albert Lea is not among the ~116 agencies seeded from the current BCA roster, consistent with a 2-mobile-unit PIPS program likely retired before the Flock era. Worth confirming whether Albert Lea runs ALPRs today and, if so, why it is absent from the BCA list; if it does not, this row is a historical record rather than an open audit obligation. Confirms the systemic dataset gap flagged on the 2026-09-17 Rochester pass: the pre-2025 LRL mandated-report folders are substantially unswept, and 2021 had not been touched at all before this run.