Brooklyn Park Police Department

What the audit said

GHOST FINDING — the audit closes with a recommendation and records no exception. LEADS writes that "LEADS Auditors recommend that the department produce and save monthly or bi-monthly reports containing summary data," while the report's own conclusion is unqualified: "LEADS Consulting finds the Brooklyn Park Police Department to be in compliance with Minnesota Statute 13.824." The recommendation names a real transparency gap — the department was found capable of producing the required usage reports but was not producing and retaining them as a matter of practice, which is the mechanism by which the public and the agency's own supervisors can see how ALPR is used. Under FinePrint's scoring that maps to the Material precedent for an absent public log of use. Because the auditor recorded it as advice rather than an exception, it does not change the official findings count; it is logged as one ghost finding against LEADS. See the Feed article "The ghost findings of Minnesota's ALPR audits." Otherwise the audit is methodologically real. LEADS reviewed all 534 reads in the sample window against the statute's collection limits, examined the 3M BOSS audit trail directly, ran electronic database searches, and confirmed no data retained past the 60-day destruction deadline. Access was limited to six authorized users, all logged. System totals reported: 88,692 reads and 193 hits in the 60 days preceding fieldwork; 8,391 hits since the system went live in May 2015. The narrative also records data-quality noise that carries no compliance weight and is not scored as findings — five reads missing GPS data, four with indiscernible persons, six false reads off fencing and weeds, several off street signs, 35 of 193 hits sequential duplicates, and several false hits where the plate's state could not be identified.

FinePrint notes

Located 2026-08-27 (weekly search rotation, Part 2). NOT an LRL mandated-reports filing — this audit was submitted to the Legislative Commission on Data Practices and survives as a meeting exhibit from the LCDP's Nov. 7, 2017 meeting (lcc.mn.gov/lcdp/meetings/11072017/). LRL Doc Number and Filing Year are therefore left empty; Filing Year's select offers only 2024-2027 in any case. Agency confirmed on the report's own letterhead as City of Brooklyn Park Police Department. Audit Period Start is derived, not quoted: the report states the sample covers the 60 days preceding the July 12, 2017 fieldwork date, which is 2017-05-13. Conducted Date is the July 12, 2017 fieldwork date, not the August 1, 2017 submission date. Devices/Cameras = 2 records two mobile squad-mounted units; the report states there were no fixed/stationary readers, so the count is squad units rather than a separate camera count. Auditor LE Background checked per project convention: LEADS Consulting is directed by Bob Fletcher, who has served as Ramsey County Sheriff. Consistent with the Moorhead PD 2018 LEADS row. Audit Depth rated Deep / technical to match Moorhead — same auditor, same template, same direct-audit-trail methodology. FOLLOW-UP, and the more newsworthy thread: this is a 2017 audit of a two-squad 3M BOSS system that no longer reflects the department's program. Brooklyn Park has since moved to add ALPR cameras for investigations (Star Tribune, "Brooklyn Park to add automated license plate readers for police investigations"). No audit has been located for any cycle after 2017 — roughly four biennial cycles unaccounted for. Re-search this agency against the 2024-2026 LRL folders and Brooklyn Park city council packets, and consider a records request to the city for ALPR audits since 2018.