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OSN team activities

The activities of each of the mentioned OSN teams are unclear—Agencies in OSN He responded to our request for clarification by saying that “mutual aid” and “joint response” were commonplace and there was a common response to the prosecution of officers other than the murder of George Floyd. “As with any incident that may involve more than one agency or government agency, affected groups met to discuss how best to cooperate to ensure public safety,” the Minneapolis Police Department said in an email. “These relationships and efforts continue. OSN no longer works.”

However, the multiple email chains we reviewed in October included “OSN Communications”, “OSN Management Team” and “OSN Intel Team” meetings regarding protest preparations that could arise around the trial of the officer Kim Potter who killed Daunte. Alongside Wright, the trials of three officers other than Chauvin, who were charged with crimes related to the murder of George Floyd. (Potter was found guilty of murder and convicted last month; Three police officers involved in Floyd’s murder was convicted in federal court last month And they’re waiting for punishment.) In a management team meeting email, they refer to the ongoing agenda as “OSN 2.0.” Bruce Gordon, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety, said that any such reference is “unofficial” and that “OSN 2.0 never was and does not currently exist.”

Shared files used by the intelligence team to transfer information between law enforcement continued to be added and updated since last October, the most recent period covered by our registration requests. The group was holding regular meetings, according to emails from 12 people, two of them from the FBI. Cynthia Barrington, a public relations officer at the FBI, said in response to a request for comment from the MIT Technology Review that the bureau’s activities extend to sharing information “through state and regional fusion centers.” Barrington also acknowledged that the bureau was involved in the preparations for the protest stemming from other cases besides Chauvin’s case. “This was also the case during the preparations prior to subsequent court action related to the highly publicized state and federal prosecutions, as well as the state case involving former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.”

“The ‘Intel Team’ by its name is an email group made up of local, state and federal agencies with law enforcement responsibilities during OSN,” Gordon says. “These agencies are involved in other event planning, and the same group email may have been used in other unrelated planning efforts. All relevant agencies have ongoing, ongoing responsibilities regarding public safety that do not end when the OSN ends.”

Munira Mohamed, a policy partner at the Minnesota ACLU, said the “porous nature” of collaborative law enforcement practices “creates all these legal loopholes and opportunities to avoid public scrutiny and public scrutiny.” Mohamed said the ongoing nature of OSN activities is a “duty creep story” and that “the history of surveillance and this law enforcement continues, continues and continues, somewhat unabated, once the infrastructure of something is established.” It becomes a permanent infrastructure.”

While it is unclear to what extent the ongoing nature of the program is formal, many of the teams, operations and communications structures created for OSN remain in place to this day and are used to respond to protest activities. A spokesperson for the Minneapolis Police Department said in an email to MIT Technology Review that the agency “returned to normal operations at the conclusion of the OSN, effective Friday, April 23.” The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department declined our requests for comment.