Is there conflict?

In the Star Tribune today it was pointed out that there may be some questions as to the process how a former employee of the Minnesota Department of Education was given a contract to do state work. More than likely I contend is that the reporter used the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act to get some of the information he needed for the story.  It is stories like this why it is important for the media and citizen's to use our state's freedom of information law to find what government is up to.