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.
Now that the state has revamped the sex offender registry, here’s a chart that explains the three-tier system and details which specific crimes require the offender to be in which tier, depending on their age.
Gov. Rick Snyder is scheduled to sign a series of bills reforming the state’s sex offender registry at 9 am this morning. The bills establish three tiers of offenders based on the severity of their crimes. It also removes Romeo and Juliet relationships from the list entirely.
The Michigan Senate approved a series of bills to reform Michigan’s sex offender laws on Thursday, including a provision that would no longer require those in “Romeo and Juliet” relationships to remain on the sex offender list.
The Michigan State Police are planning a statewide sweep to round up hundreds of people on the sex offender registry who have not complied with regulations requiring them to inform the police when they move from one address to another. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that federal legislation governing the state sex offender registries does not apply to any actions taken prior to that legislation being passed. The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act was passed in 2006, requiring all sex offenders who move from one state to another to comply with all the [...]
The Delta County Commission, in Michigan’s upper peninsula, voted unanimously to urge the state legislature to include home-based child care centers in legislation to expand the definition of so-called school safety zones. The zones are created by state law and prevent convicted sex offenders from being 1,000 feet from schools. Lawmakers have been considering legislation [...]
The Michigan State Police say that the number of people required to register on the sex offender registry claiming to be homeless has jumped 62 percent since February. This, police say, is the result of a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling in February which said homeless sex offenders were not required to register. The Appeals [...]
As Michigan and 48 other states struggle to comply with the mandates of the Adam Walsh Act, the U.S. Department of Justice is revising some of the implementation guidelines for that law to help the states find equitable ways to do so. The Adam Walsh Act was passed by Congress in 2006 and gave the [...]
Adrian Hill, a sex offender convicted of soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of failure to register with the state. The charge is a misdemeanor. Hill, police say, failed to register as a sex offender from January 2007 until his early April arrest. He is now properly registered [...]
The state of Michigan is not the only state struggling to comply with the changes required by the federal Adam Walsh Act to the state’s sex offender registry. The Bangor Daily News reports that Maine is having a difficult time with those requirements as well and may ask for a delay in implementation of those [...]
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