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.
A man who was falsely accused of — and falsely confessed to — a murder he did not commit is suing the Detroit Police Department, arguing that officers manipulated him into making the false confession. Damon Nathaniel initially confessed to the murder during a long interrogation session at which, he claims, the police told him [...]
Rep. John Conyers announced on Wednesday that the FBI and the Department of Justice will both investigate the shooting of 7-year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a botched raid by the Detroit Police Department on May 16. The Detroit Free Press reports:
After the shutdown of the Detroit Crime Lab a couple years ago for a pattern of bad testing results, the work from that lab had to be spread to the 7 Michigan State Police crime labs around the state. A new plan will have the state police running a new lab inside the proposed new [...]
Much attention has been given, and will continue to be given, to the shooting death of 7-year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in Detroit on May 16. Radley Balko, a policy analyst with the Reason Foundation who has written widely about the dangers of the militarization of law enforcement, draws some lessons from the situation. Balko’s primary [...]
FERNDALE– Charles Pugh, the recently elected Detroit City Council President, says he won’t back cuts to police or fire programs, public transportation or cuts to the city’s health department programs dealing with HIV/AIDS. “Everything else is on the table,” Pugh said.
The city of Detroit paid out $349,000 to silence a man who accused two Detroit Police Officers of beating him and conducting an illegal body cavity search. The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the Detroit Law Department made the pay out to Byron Ogletree, 43, of River Rouge in March of 2007. He alleges [...]
The conviction of Diane Bukowski on felony police obstruction charges last week has prompted warnings about a chilling of press freedom as well as calls for a federal investigation of the Wayne County prosecutor’s office. One state lawmaker said the conviction is a “travesty of justice” and a pay-back from Bukowski’s reporting on police brutality in Detroit.
The Detroit Police Department’s (DPD) second deputy chief James Tate, 34, announced Tuesday that he will be running for a seat in city council November’s general election. According to the Detroit Free Press, Tate told members of DPD’s senior management team that he will be resigning after a five-year tenure as spokesman the department.
WXYZ reports that nearly the entire vice squad from the Detroit Police Department has been suspended due to allegations of a whole range of official misconduct and corruption.
The ACLU of Michigan is expressing grave concern over a recent sweep through Central High School by the Detroit Police Department, an action that resulted in the arrest of 49 students for “loitering.” They are asking the students who got arrested and their parents to contact the organization to determine whether legal action against the [...]
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