City of Minneapolis to Pay Anchor Almost $200,000 Bucks

KMSP Anchor Alix Kendall filed a lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis and it's police department for snooping on her. 

Kendal's lawsuit claimed that the cops repeatedly looked up her driver's license information for no good reason.

In general, late-night lookups were considered a violation by the court, said Kendall's attorney, Sonia Miller-Van Oort of Sapientia Law Group.

The Minneapolis City Council's ways and means committee on Tuesday approved paying Kendall $150,000 plus $43,500 in attorney's fees. The settlement goes to the full City Council for approval on Friday.

The city of St. Paul settled a similar lawsuit with Kendall in January, agreeing to pay her $33,000.

Miller-Van Oort said of the roughly 30 DVS snooping cases her firm took on, only three remain — two in front of the court of appeals and one in federal district court.

"We're definitely at the end of it," Miller-Van Oort said. "Ms. Kendall, along with the other women who brought these suits, brought the suits because of their genuine concern about personal privacy and concern about abuse of power and abuse of discretion by law enforcement. A strong incentive for bringing these cases was to make people aware of what was happening and to get it to stop."

H/T Star Tribune

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