Echo files suit against district

Requests footage from November incident

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Excerpt from Echo’s legal complaint filed against the St. Louis Park school district.

Updated Jan. 20: The PDF of Echo’s complaint has been updated to reflect a change in how the plaintiff is listed.

Echo filed a suit against the St. Louis Park school district Jan. 18alleging the district failed to comply with the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act in withholding security footage from the Nov. 14 hijab incident.

Echo editors-in-chief Maggie Bahnson and Ethan Brown requested video footage and other information from the day of the incident, pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. The Echo Newspaper is listed as the plaintiff in the case.

“This action seeks to compel compliance with a request brought pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minn. Stat. § 13.01, et seq., for the purposes of obtaining access to the security video and other related data,” the lawsuit states.

Echo will update its coverage of the lawsuit as more information becomes available.