Миннесота готовит к сентябрю 2027 года работу нового офиса ревизора для борьбы с мошенничеством

ONE YEAR OUT: Roadmap to Minnesota’s Inspector General being fully operational ST. PAUL, Minn. (GRAY) – On September 1st, 2027, the brand-new Minnesota Office of the Inspector General will be fully operational. The office was established after the legislature passed a broadly bipartisan bill this past spring to implement the new office in an effort to crack down on fraud. The independent watchdog agency will be responsible for preventing fraud at the state level and will eventually have the capacity to investigate and make arrests. The legislature laid out a fairly clear-cut timeline to get the office up and running by this time next year. Part of that process involves a bipartisan commission of lawmakers tasked with creating a list of recommendations for the governor by the end of the year. “We want to get the OIG chosen so that they can then begin the work of standing their office up before September of 27,” said Rep. Jim Nash (R-Waconia), Vice Chair of the Legislative Inspector General Advisory Commission. The commission met for the first time last week, appointing Nash as vice chair and State Senator Heather Gustafson (DFL-Vadnais Heights) as chair. “By December 14, the commission will have done its work, done our interviews, done our thing, and then we’ll send on to the new governor a couple people we think would be good for the gig,” said Senator Aric Putnam (DFL-St. Cloud), who serves on the commission. “We want to get somewhere in the three to four names [range] in a final round where we present those to whomever the governor is going to be for selection,” Nash said. Right now, the legislative commission is meeting monthly to narrow down that list of candidates. The finalists will likely need bipartisan support in order to make the list. “The bipartisan balance on the commission, I think, is such that we are going to have to work together closely to forward names that can be supported by both chambers and both caucuses,” said Nash. Once presented with the list, the governor will have until February 1st to make a selection for the state’s first Inspector General. Once selected, that individual will need to be approved by a 3/5ths majority of the Minnesota Senate. “[After the Senate confirms them], that person is ready to get to work and set up the actual office itself, which is supposed to be ready and working in September of 2027,” said Putnam. Once appointed, the Inspector General will serve a five-year term. The office will be up and running in September, and the OIG will also be able to start hiring an enforcement division on January 1, 2028, allowing them to make arrests and conduct investigations. Copyright 2026 KTTC. All rights reserved.