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State investigators temporarily made public passwords to city of Minneapolis email accounts, evidence management systems and other private information from the cellphones of two officers and a police shooting victim, 

a report by freelance journalist Tony Webster

The disclosures came as part of a massive data dump when Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension released the evidence it used to investigate 

 by Minneapolis police officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly.

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Webster found the forensic analysis of the three phones amid over 2,000 pages of documents, audio recordings and videos used in the BCA's probe.


The apparently unredacted analyses included highly personal information, as 


He didn't publish the sensitive data, and he waited to publish his report until the state took down the information.


"It took them 18 hours to take the data down," Webster told MPR News host Tom Crann in an interview.


During that time, one of the officer's had his home addressed published, Webster reported.  


"I'm obviously disappointed that they published my home address. That's a huge risk," the officer told Webster.

, and listen to his conversation with MPR News' Crann on the player above.

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State investigators temporarily made public passwords to city of Minneapolis email accounts, evidence management systems and other private information from the cellphones of two officers and a police shooting victim, a report by freelance journalist Tony Webster has found.

State investigators temporarily made public passwords to city of Minneapolis email accounts, evidence management systems and other private information from the cellphones of two officers and a police shooting victim, a report by journalist Tony Webster has found.

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