School safety is shared area of Minnesota lawmaker focus, but parties split on solutions Minnesota lawmakers came into the 2026 legislative session with school safety as top priority. While there's overlap in changes that could help secure schools, the narrowly-split Legislature is still ...

School safety is shared area of Minnesota lawmaker focus, but parties split on solutions www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court will consider whether Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with LGBTQ parents can get state funding.

Epstein Wanted Connections at Harvard. Files Show Many Faculty Members Were Happy to Help. New documents reveal what professors did to help Jeffrey Epstein get inside Harvard’s gates.

Jeffrey Epstein had a special obsession with Harvard, which he sought to infiltrate more than any other American institution. New documents reveal what professors did to helped him get inside the university gates.

BREAKING: Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarity is bringing the first charges against a federal officer stemming from Operation Metro Surge.
Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. faces two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon after he pulled a gun on Hwy. 62 on a driver and passenger.
Charges here:

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As Minnesota lawmakers work to stop grooming in schools, a question lingers: What is grooming? State lawmakers are looking at measures to prevent grooming of children by adults in schools and other institutions. Experts say understanding what grooming is and isn’t is the first step to ending th...

Minnesota lawmakers working now to write a law to prevent grooming of children by adults in schools are parsing through the same questions district administrators, sports officials, caregivers and others have struggled for years to answer: What is grooming and how do we stop it?

The Trump administration ripped up civil rights agreements. Could it spark a chain reaction for schools? Conservatives say the federal government is finally interpreting Title IX correctly. But some legal experts say tearing up old agreements is not only virtually unprecedented — it could have a chilling...

Terminating civil rights agreements could have ripple effects far beyond those cases or even transgender students as a group. “Once you open that door to something that is unprecedented, where does it end?" one longtime OCR employee asked. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/14/t...

Minnesota investigates the arrest by ICE of a Hmong American man as a possible kidnapping Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said Monday they will pursue information from the Department of Homeland Security that they need for their investigation into the arrest of Ch...

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said Monday they will pursue information from the Department of Homeland Security that they need for their investigation into the arrest of ChongLy “Scott” Thao, an American citizen.

'Success Sequence' Urges Marriage, Then Parenthood. These States Want Schools to Teach It The decades-old concept is getting new attention, largely from Republican lawmakers.

'Success Sequence' Urges Marriage, Then Parenthood. These States Want Schools to Teach It: The decades-old concept is getting new attention, largely from Republican lawmakers.

Kids in ICE Detention Up 10x in Trump’s Second Term Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

Thanks for this. The detention of children--in both ICE and criminal system-- has happened across administrations.

But right now, it seems to be in hyperdrive. New numbers: 6,200+ kids detained by ICE in Trump’s Second Term, Up 10x since Biden left office

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...

“It's not like when people got out of detention or once ICE left, that all was well again...There is this residual effect of a lot of denials of asylum cases now…That is another thing that is less visible than agents In the street, but still really impactful.” -C. Heights comms director K. Stuenkel

In Columbia Heights, hundreds stayed home, "in some cases with blankets on the windows" according to the district. Close to 100 that were enrolled at the school in December are no longer attending -- they've moved or had their asylum cases denied.

In the Minneapolis district some 6000 students chose virtual learning at some point over the past few months.

Fears linger as Minnesota kids return to in-person classes after ICE chaos Twin Cities school districts are ending the short-term virtual learning options many opened for students during the surge of federal agents in Minnesota. Districts say many children are returning with...

Several Twin Cities schools are welcoming students back to in-person learning after many were to afraid to attend class during Operation Metro Surge. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section A county board near Nashville voted to dismiss Luanne James, who said she stands by her decision, in the latest clash in a national debate over access to books.

A librarian in Tennessee was fired this week for refusing to move over 130 books with LGBTQ+ themes to the system’s adult section.

Battles over access to children’s books with LGBTQ+ themes have played out through libraries across the U.S.

What's next for Meta in the wake of trial losses and layoffs? The company behind Facebook and Instagram has lost two major court cases and appears to be scaling back on the virtual reality Metaverse.

The company behind Facebook and Instagram has lost two major court cases and appears to be scaling back on the virtual reality Metaverse. n.pr/4cm8Q6C

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The normal DHS footprint in Minnesota is 150 federal officers.
On February 25, officials said in a court filing that there would be “approximately 300 agents on detail to the St. Paul Field Office by March 2026.”
Hard to confirm actual numbers, besides these court filings.

Table showing 28% of Minneapolis encountered ICE agents & 19% of St. Paul did.

Fascinating poll on how pervasive ICE invasion was in the central cities. Almost one-fifth of St. Paul encountered ICE; more than a quarter of Minneapolis did. Either figure is astounding & awful; indicates Mpls enforcement was roughly half again more intense than St.P.

Parents, community members urge Bemidji school board to reconsider closure plan The public had one final chance Tuesday night to weigh in on a proposal to shutter J.W. Smith Elementary School in Bemidji. The school board will make a final decision on the school closure plan next ...

"the cost-saving plan...has sparked concerns, especially from tribal nations. J.W. Smith Elementary has the highest population of Indigenous learners in the district." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“We wouldn’t even let that happen in the prison system, but we’re allowing that to happen to the most vulnerable,” Brooklyn Park Mayor Hollies Winston said of the maltreatment cases in the city’s group homes. “This hasn’t been dealt with and now it’s right in front of us. It’s maddening.”

Deaths, neglect, calls for help: Group home boom overwhelms Brooklyn Park Taxpayer-funded group homes help thousands of Minnesotans with physical or mental disabilities live as independently as possible. But the industry’s rapid growth in the Twin Cities northwest suburbs h...

This story from @elliemroth.bsky.social !!
"Brooklyn Park police say about 10 percent of the 911 calls they handle now originate from group homes."
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Complaint – #1 in STATE OF MINNESOTA v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01007) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12317154) filed by STATE OF MINNESOTA, DREW EVANS, MARY F. MORIARTY. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1 - DHS Touhy Demand re: Good, #...

Read the full lawsuit here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement.

ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days.

The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished.

Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me.

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This is a really great story from @jcollins.bsky.social . Also, I appreciate that he got this line from a Minnesotan in here: “Ope, the drones are back tonight.’”

"Homeland Security has operated with little oversight from the courts and Congress, and seems to have been disregarding laws, its own policies and even the Constitution over the last year"

Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...

“We need to know how they’re being used,” Stanley said of drones and the government. “The secrecy and the opaqueness is also illegitimate and is really a big part of the problem.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

In central Minnesota, a family fearing deportation hides from ICE The number of federal immigration agents in Minnesota has dwindled in recent weeks, but many immigrants are still living in fear of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A Cold Spring family is amo...

The number of federal immigration agents in Minnesota has dwindled in recent weeks, but many immigrants are still living in fear of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A Cold Spring family is among those whose lives were upended by the enforcement surge and haven't yet returned to normal.

Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...