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 metro Detroit man is facing felony charges under the state’s HIV disclosure laws after being arrested for driving under a suspended license because the arresting officer notified the man’s ex-girlfriend that he was HIV-positive, in apparent violation of state law.
Activists, civil rights attorneys and AIDS service organizations met for the first time last week in New York City to launch a project that seeks an end to HIV-specific criminal laws in the U.S. and around the world.
LANSING — Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero has formally requested Attorney General Mike Cox investigate the release of the HIV status of man arrested in a sex-sting operation. The letter, dated July 29, asks the attorney general to “initiate an independent investigation of the City’s release, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, of [...]
LANSING — The man at the center of the HIV disclosure controversy has been told by three separate law enforcement agencies that they can’t take his criminal complaint he wants to file against the city attorney.
LANSING — City Council members are divided about whether the city should ask Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to investigate the city attorney’s release of the HIV-positive status of a man arrested in a May 22 undercover sex sting operation in a city nature center.
LANSING — Buried at the end of one of the arrest reports from a controversial May 22 sex-sting operation in the capital city’s Fenner Nature Center is information that one of the men arrested was HIV positive. That disclosure, experts say, may have violated the state’s confidentiality laws protecting the identity of those who are infected with the virus.
BAY CITY — The case of Michael S. Holder, complete with a cast that includes an admittedly racially-biased jury, a scorned lover and a life-threatening virus surrounded more by fear than fact is only one example of several prosecutions brought under a 1988 law that experts warn is vague and can lead to vindictive prosecutions.
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