Some of the information requested below may be protected from disclosure under Minnesota law. Although you are not legally required to provide any information, we require responses to questions 1-9 to process your application. The remaining questions are optional and include questions about your age, gender, race, and ethnicity. MnDOT’s goal is to recruit a pool of STAC applicants that represent the geographic, gender, age, and racial diversity of the state. Applicants will not be penalized for declining to respond to these questions nor are there any consequences for choosing to respond. By answering, however, you will help MnDOT with recruiting a diverse applicant pool. MnDOT will compile the responses we receive to these questions and aggregate them so they will not be associated with you personally. The unaggregated responses and any other private data you provide will only be accessible to MnDOT employees whose job assignments require access, to anyone you specifically authorize, pursuant to court order, and by any other person or entity authorized by state or federal law.