Data Requests

There are three different types of data that is available and can be requested from Jackson County.  

Property Data - this type of data request usually contains information about specific or a group of  property parcels, land information, GIS information requests or Mapping requests.  

Some of this information is available through the Beacon system and can be accessed from this website and is free of charge.   

Some of this information is from Jackson County's property tax and appraisal systems and is tabular, text based data and which can be formatted in either delimited text files or Excel spread sheets.  There is a charge for this data to be extracted from the systems.

GIS spatial data in the form of ESRI shape files can also be extracted from Jackson County's data files

Data About You - This information discusses your rights when government entities collect and keep information about you.  

The Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13) says that data subjects have certain rights related to a government entity collecting, creating, and keeping government data about them.  You are the subject of data when you can be identified from the data. Government data is a term that means all recorded information a government entity has, including paper, email, DVDs, photographs, etc.

Data for the Public - This information also discusses the Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13).  This act presumes that all government data are public unless a state or federal law says the data are not public. Government data is a term that means all recorded information a government entity has, including paper, email, DVDs, photographs, etc.

The Government Data Practices Act also provides that Jackson County must keep all government data in a way that makes it easy for you, as a member of the public, to access public data.  You have the right to look at (inspect), free of charge, all public data that we keep.  You also have the right to get copies of public data. The Data Practices Act allows us to charge for copies. You have the right to look at data, free of charge, before deciding to request copies.