Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office

What the audit said

One discrepancy recorded, under Log of Use Required: the public transparency portal omits the specific time of day ALPRs actively collected data. The office says it will use system-generated reports (which include time of day) going forward. A second 'Discrepancy noted' annotation appears next to the statement that the office has no stationary/fixed ALPRs, with no explanation; treated as a template artifact, not a second finding. All other sections (data collection/classification/use restrictions, destruction/60-day retention, sharing, biennial audit, access authorization, BCA notification) marked 'No discrepancies noted.' One ALPR photo was shared with another agency during a homicide investigation; no other sharing reported.

FinePrint notes

New agency for this tracker, not previously logged. Surfaced 2026-10-15 as a side hit while running the weekly ALPR Audit Watch search rotation on Winona/Aitkin (lrl.mn.gov's new-reports feed). Confirmed NOT on the BCA LPR roster as of 2026-10-15 (checked dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr directly) -- an off-list agency documenting its own ALPR program and audit is itself a transparency/filing-compliance finding, consistent with the Columbia Heights pattern. 31 squads equipped with Axon mobile ALPR units; agency states no fixed/stationary ALPRs. Scored the time-of-day log gap Superficial rather than Material because a public log already exists (transparency portal) -- this is a granularity gap within it, not an absence of public logging. Report states no overall compliance determination and doesn't confirm whether the auditor had live system access beyond one Evidence.com query.