Jury awards $585K to Minn. officer over license lookups
By: The Associated Press, policeone.com
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A federal jury in Minnesota has awarded $585,000 to a police officer who alleged that 58 fellow officers from the Minneapolis Police Department broke a federal privacy law by searching for her driver’s license data without a lawful purpose.
The jury returned its verdict Wednesday in St. Paul in favor of Amy Krekelberg. Her attorneys said other officers improperly searched for her private data 87 times from 2009 to 2013 —accessing information including her photograph, address, age, height, and weight — inflicting emotional distress in the process.
The city is considering an appeal.
