Dayton Calls Mille Lacs County Revoked Law Enforcement Agreement a 'Public Safety Crisis'

In an exclusive interview, Governor Mark Dayton told KSTP Mille Lacs County faces a "public safety crisis" and called recent actions by county leaders "dangerously irresponsible and morally indefensible."

In July 2016, Mille Lacs County revoked a 25-year-old joint law enforcement agreement with tribal police on the Reservation of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Fifteen months of behind-the-scenes talks and mediation have not produced a new joint law enforcement agreement between the tribe and the county, which officially strips Mille Lacs Band Tribal Police of their authority to enforce state law on the reservation.

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