I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The ACLU of Michigan announced Tuesday that they had filed a federal lawsuit against the Detroit Public Schools for conducting mass searches of students without any particular suspicion of wrongdoing. They are also asking that the school system be held in contempt of court for violating a court order against mass searches resulting from a nearly identical 2006 case.
The complaint (PDF) alleges that at Mumford and other schools in the Detroit system, all students are subjected to searches upon entering the school even after they’ve already gone through metal detectors at the door. This is in violation of a 2006 consent decree signed by the school that agreed to search only individual students where there is a “reasonable suspicion” that they have violated school rules. You can see that consent decree here (PDF).
In a letter (PDF) to DPS emergency manager Robert Bobb, the ACLU said “without individualized determinations regarding each student, the searches were unconstitutional fishing expeditions that violated the rights of the students involved.”
The suit was filed on behalf of an honors student at Mumford High School by her grandmother, who was also a plaintiff in the 2006 suit on behalf of another relative.
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