Krekelberg Amy (Amy Krekelberg)

Biography

2019: Receiving compensation in and $585,000 for viewing personal data by police officers

At the end of June, 2019 the employee of police from the State of Minnesota received $585,000 as compensation that colleagues illegally browsed its personal information in the database of driver's licenses.

Amy Krekelberg received the notification from Department of natural resources of Minnesota in 2013 from where she learned that the government employee abused access to the database of motor transportation management. Without legal basis it requested data on driver's licenses of many thousands of people, generally women, one of whom was Krekelberg.

Corruption in police of the USA: as get the "left" access of drivers to the database

As a result Krekelberg asked to book audit of its entries in the database and with surprise found out that its personal data, including the address, weight, growth and the photo of driver's licenses, during the period from 2009 to 2013 browsed nearly 1000 times. No legal reasons to similar requests existed. It turned out that in many cases requests arrived from her colleagues police officers, and some at night. In general, colleagues Krekelberg addressed these data without its consent of 87 times, breaking thereby federal laws.

Krekelberg filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and also against two certain officials for violation of the law about privacy protection of data. Jury trial Krekelberg solved case in advantage. It should receive $585,000, including $300,000 in the form of the penalties imposed on two defendants. Both browsed information after Krekelberg, according to it, rejected their attempts to enter with it into the romantic relations.

The city administration recognized that such violations exist, but stated that it already took some measures for confidential information protection. In the considered database the automatic query log is conducted now, and on the employees abusing the provision penalties are imposed.^[1]

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