On Jan. 20 Roseville Patch published a police blotter that included six calls related to prostitution at the 2300 block of Cleveland Avenue, where the Minneapolis North Motel 6 is located.

In response to the blotter, a Patch reader wrote in to ask about the Roseville Police department’s policy of checking hotel registers.

Roseville Police Department Lt. Lorne Rosand said that state law compels hotels to share their registers with police.

“We look at the [registers of the] majority of the hotels in Roseville,” he said. “We look at most or all of them.”

Rosand said the department has received “a number of complaints” about the Motel 6 on Cleveland Avenue.

Rosand said the police department looks more frequently at the registers of hotels that have a history of prostitution complaints.

“There are some that we look at more often because they tend to draw a certain criminal element,” he said.

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