St. Paul Weighs Adding Staff as Data Requests Surge
The City of St. Paul is experiencing a substantial surge in data requests, prompting consideration of hiring additional staff to process them. The number of requests has grown significantly from 668 in 2017 to over 22,000 in recent years, with…
Minneapolis St. Paul, MN, October 28, 2026 —
The City of St. Paul is considering hiring additional staff to process a sharp increase in data requests, as the reported number has risen from 668 in 2017 to more than 22,000 in recent years.
Current projections indicate that requests will continue to rise sharply, according to the information provided. The city’s consideration of additional staffing comes as it faces a substantially larger volume of requests than the figure reported for 2017.
The information available does not specify what types of data are being requested, which city departments handle them, or the period covered by the figure of more than 22,000. It also does not identify how many additional employees may be considered, when a staffing decision could be made, or what the projected increase is expected to be.
No details were provided about the current process for handling requests, the time needed to fulfill them, or whether the increase has affected response times. The city’s projected rise is described as sharp, but no projection figures or forecast dates were included.
For now, the reported figures establish the scale of the increase and the city’s consideration of adding staff, but they do not indicate that hiring has been approved. Further details about the requests, staffing plans and projections were not provided.
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