Minneapolis Police Department

What the audit said

Compliant with all statutory ALPR requirements. Two recommendations: (1) establish a process for independent third-party review of assessment reports (vendor oversight); (2) further develop and formally approve ALPR standard operating procedures.

What the audit said

Three findings: (1) MPD deletes user audit-trail/authorization data on the same 60-day schedule as ALPR data even though the statute sets no retention floor for authorization data, weakening long-term oversight and misuse investigations; (2) obsolete ALPR user accounts for personnel no longer with MPD (or without a current access need) remained active, a potential subd. 7 non-conformity and insider-threat risk; (3) minimal user activity had left a lack of user logs, limiting how comprehensively use could be audited. Engaged through the Minneapolis Office of the City Auditor. This is the 2023 audit filed in 2025.