Beaulieu v. Minnesota Department of Human Services

OPINION

ANDERSON, G. BARRY, Justice.

Wallace Beaulieu, an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, was *718civilly committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (“MSOP”) in 2006 as a Sexual Psychopathic Personality (“SPP”) and a Sexually Dangerous Person (“SDP”). Beaulieu is currently confined to the MSOP secure treatment facility in Moose Lake, Minnesota, operated by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. On appeal to this court, Beaulieu challenges his indeterminate civil commitment asserting three substantive claims. First, Beau-lieu argues the district court lacked subject…