The St. Paul City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $29,500 to settle the lawsuit brought by a Minneapolis police officer who accused St. Paul officers of snooping in her personal driver’s license information.

Amy Krekelberg’s federal lawsuit initially named officers and employees from more than 40 law enforcement agencies and entities in Minnesota, saying they accessed her private information nearly 1,000 times from 2003 to 2013.

Krekelberg’s lawsuit alleges that officers “charged with protecting and serving the public knowingly abused their positions of trust to invade the private life of Krekelberg. … They did so for personal reasons, for curiosity, for sexual interest, for physical attraction, for animus towards female police officers, and out of jealously of successful female police officers.”

Others have made similar claims in lawsuits in recent years, saying officers accessed their private driver’s license data for non-law-enforcement purposes.

In 2011, Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former St. Paul police officer, disclosed that her data had been looked up more than 550 times by fellow officers and prompted a review by the legislative auditor. Rasmusson settled with St. Paul for $385,000 and with other cities for a total of more than $1 million.

The state audit found that more than half of Minnesota law enforcement personnel with access to driver’s license data might have made inappropriate searches.

Krekelberg’s lawsuit describes the officers who accessed her data as “the window-peepers of the electronic data age.” Driver’s license data available to law enforcement includes home address, photograph, date of birth, height, weight and medical information.

The city of St. Paul did not admit wrongdoing in settling the lawsuit.

“The city agreed to settle the case to avoid the costs and uncertainty of continued litigation,” City Attorney Samuel Clark said in a statement.

After Krekelberg filed her suit, a judge dismissed hundreds of accesses that occurred before December 2009 due to the statute of limitations, but her suit was allowed to move forward in cases that occurred after that time — they involve 12 government entities and a few individuals, said Sonia Miller-Van Oort, one of Krekelberg’s attorneys.

Krekelberg has reached settlements with nine other cities, and the case is moving forward against others, according to Miller-Van Oort.

Krekelberg’s lawsuit alleged St. Paul officers improperly accessed her private data 54 times. Three St. Paul officers were identified as doing so in the four years before her suit was filed — Matthew Koncar, Tong Yang and Joshua Lynaugh, who died in the line of duty in 2013.

Krekelberg filed her lawsuit in December 2013. Since 2013, St. Paul officers have been required to take a re-certification class annually in the use of the state driver’s license database, according to a department spokesman.