Brett Bacon, Assistant County Attorney
The man who treats corrupted records as trustworthy witnesses and systemic failures as tools of strategy.
Key Context
- Brett Bacon serves as an Assistant Ramsey County Attorney.
- Appears frequently in civil cases defending county departments and staff.
- Filed in Strickland v. Ramsey County and Scheffler v. County of Ramsey.
- Arguments often rely on case data later revealed to be incomplete or corrupted.
Why It Matters
Civil litigation against the government is not an even playing field. Assistant County Attorney Brett Bacon exploits every procedural defect to sidestep accountability - from corrupted court records to preemptive dismissal tactics. His work doesn't just defend Ramsey County; it defines how broken systems are upheld.
In Strickland v. Ramsey County, Wright, and Scheffler, Bacon's signature appears on filings that rely on incomplete, altered, or procedurally defective case materials. He presents these anomalies not as red flags-but as the official version of events. When the record contradicts itself, he argues the version that benefits the County most.
This page exists to document those patterns. Because when attorneys normalize broken workflows, the damage doesn't stay on paper. It alters lives, rulings, and public trust.
A Documented Pattern
If Ramsey County were a malfunctioning database, Brett Bacon would be the engineer who insists the corrupted output is 'working as intended.'
His name surfaces in cases where the stakes run hot: constitutional litigation in Minnesota Chamber of Commerce v. Choi, civil-rights settlements in Tucker v. Smith et al., and a growing constellation of federal cases where the court record refuses to remain in one piece. These are not background assignments. They are the fault-lines where public accountability meets institutional self-protection.
But the clearest shape of Bacon's method emerges in the overlapping civil-rights litigation that has begun forming a pattern map across Ramsey County. In Wright v. St. Paul Police Department, he filed the criminal ROA for 62-CR-22-5116 - a "record" that behaves less like a timeline and more like a shuffled deck: index numbers out of sequence, events contradicting each other, and entire sections rearranging themselves between exports. That defective ROA is attached to a man serving twenty-six years.
In Strickland v. Ramsey County, the anomaly repeats. Bacon presented the ROA for 62-HR-CV-24-963 as if it were a stable document, despite misordered entries, missing signatures, and July hearing notices that appear to have shed and regrown metadata like a glitching sprite. Instead of asking why the record looked corrupted, he treated the corruption as truth.
And in Scheffler v. Ramsey County, the curtain lifts even further: a motion filed before the case existed, an admitted ยง549.211 omission, a proud refusal to waive service as "regular practice," and a Rule 26 conference he attempted to postpone indefinitely by hiding behind his own defective filings. Three plaintiffs. Three stories. One signature workflow.
The through-line is unmistakable: Bacon operates on whatever version of the record gives the County the advantage - even if the record contradicts itself, even if the system is clearly malfunctioning, even if the defect is the County's own creation.
Procedural and Financial Pressure
Bacon's strategy is not built on facts. It is built on asymmetry. In Strickland, one of his earliest moves was filing a Rule 12 motion anchored to a Register of Actions that behaves like corrupted log data:
- Index numbers jumping backwards and forwards in time,
- Events added after the fact,
- Orders unsigned on the date they were "issued" but magically signed later,
- A July 24 hearing notice with its metadata block scrubbed into black static.
He did not question the anomalies. He did not inquire why the ROA was misordered. He did not flag that the hearing notice had been re-dated after mailing. He simply handed the glitches to the federal court and said: Trust this.
This mirrors his approach in Wright, where he filed an equally disordered criminal ROA - the unstable backbone of a prosecution that produced a 26-year sentence. And in Scheffler, he layered procedural traps: a "pre-case" motion that could not legally exist, a Rule 26 deflection maneuver, and a declaration that Ramsey County simply does not waive service, as a matter of culture.
Bacon does not correct the County's broken records. He metabolizes them - turning each defect into a procedural weapon and each denied accommodation into a narrative of plaintiff failure.
The imbalance is violent in its simplicity: Ramsey County can litigate forever. Disabled pro se plaintiffs cannot. When an attorney leans into defective workflow instead of repairing it, exhaustion becomes the real judgment against you.
Control Beyond the Courtroom
Every bureaucracy has an internal language for handling public embarrassment. Bacon teaches the course on it.
His 2025 CLE program - Handling Social Media Pressure Campaigns About a Government Employee's Private Social Media Post - outlines how government attorneys should contain online scrutiny when community members identify misconduct, document it, and refuse to look away.
The curriculum mirrors his litigation posture with eerie precision: minimize the significance of irregular records, shift the burden onto the disabled or unrepresented, recast scrutiny as harassment, and frame government employees as the true victims of public documentation.
His entry into Strickland put this philosophy on full display. Within days, he sent curt, incorrect directives instructing a disabled pro se litigant to stop serving him - despite federal rules requiring service on counsel, and despite his own simultaneous failure to serve his motion to dismiss until caught.
When he imported altered July 14 and July 24 documents from state court into federal litigation, he did so without disclaimer, without inquiry, without hesitation - presenting them as stable even though the metadata told a different story. His CLE posture and his courtroom posture are not separate skill sets. They are the same operating system.
Public Records and Everyday Power
Across cases, courts, and plaintiffs, Bacon's fingerprint is consistent: selective enforcement of rules, procedural traps laid for the unrepresented, and a willingness to treat corrupted records as if they are reliable artifacts.
For Wright, that pattern supports a 26-year sentence. For Scheffler, it created a maze of procedural impossibilities. For me, it transformed denied ADA accommodations and altered orders into accusations of noncompliance.
None of this is random. When attorneys normalize defective records, when they refuse service waivers as a matter of culture, when they use broken systems to justify dismissal, the result is a region where government mistakes never surface and government misconduct never reaches discovery.
This dossier is not about villainy. It is about architecture - and the people who keep the architecture broken on purpose.