FOIA

MI Dems & GOP can Agree
MI Dems & GOP can Agree
MI Dems & GOP can Agree
Once in a blue moon Michigan’s elected Democrats and Republicans can agree on something unanimously. They just did! Michigan House bills 4148 through 4157 would subject the governor's office to the existing Freedom of Information Act and create a new Legislative Open Records Act...
U of M Lawsuit Trump
U of M Lawsuit Trump
U of M Lawsuit Trump
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan concerning Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) concerning emails. The University of Michigan’s President Mark Schlissel has been a harsh critic of Donald Trump when he was a candidate for President and as the President...
MI Police Cams & Privacy
MI Police Cams & Privacy
MI Police Cams & Privacy
Under new legislation currently in Michigan’s House of Representatives, police body camera footage taken in your home or other private places would be mostly exempt from the Freedom of Information Act laws. According to an article in the Lansing State Journal, police camera footage in private place would not be considered a public record thus not attainable via FOIA requests...