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March 19, 2013

Police search frozen lake for Kira Trevino

Jeffery Trevino told police his wife, Kira, was missing in late February. Police determined Kira was dead after finding a significant amount of blood in the couple’s St Paul home.

Law enforcement returned to Keller Lake in Maplewood on Tuesday, March 19, as the search for the body of Kira Trevino continues.

Police and volunteer searchers combed the park over the weekend and turned up something of interest, police said. They have not disclosed what that was.

On Tuesday, law enforcement, as well as a cadaver dog, could be seen working on the lake. The dog is from a private organization assisting police, said Sgt. Paul Paulos, St. Paul police spokesman. The Ramsey County sheriff’s office is also helping follow up on leads, Paulos said. Crews have cut ice from the lake’s surface as part of the search, and divers were in the water.

via Pioneer Press.

December 12, 2012

Lawmakers mull bill to regulate automatic license plate readers

Big data poses big questions for police and citizens. Minnesota police are using Automatic License Plate Readers to capture images and locations of licence plates that monitors criminals and average citizens going about their day.

The state doesn’t have a law on the books for dealing with this type of data that can be used to determine patterns of travel for specific individuals. The Criminal & Juvenile Justice Information Policy Group are beginning the process of creating legislation to address the use of this data.

The Star Tribune previously laid out the privacy-security tensions.
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