Except as provided in section 595.024 , no person who is or has been directly engaged in the gathering, procuring, compiling, editing, or publishing of information for the purpose of transmission, dissemination or publication to the public shall be required by any court, grand jury, agency, department or branch of the state, or any of its political subdivisions or other public body, or by either house of the legislature or any committee, officer, member, or employee thereof, to disclose in any proceeding the person or means from or through which information was obtained, or to disclose any unpublished information procured by the person in the course of work or any of the person's notes, memoranda, recording tapes, film or other reportorial data whether or not it would tend to identify the person or means through which the information was obtained.
Minn. Stat. § 595.023
DISCLOSURE PROHIBITED.
Known as the Minnesota Free Flow of Information Act
The act spans §§ 595–595 (10 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 51 Cal. 3d 453 - New York Times Co. v. Superior Court (1990)
Most recently applied in Energy Transfer LP (formerly known as Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.) v. Greenpeace International ... (May 2024)
1973 c 735 s 3; 1986 c 444; 1998 c 357 s 1
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Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.