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.
While the state legislature has so far failed to take seriously the task of amending the state’s sex offender laws to distinguish between genuine predators and non-predators and to comply with the Adam Walsh Act — at the cost of millions of dollars in federal aid the last two years — it does seem to [...]
LANSING — Violent sex offenders and those who perpetrate sex crimes against children but fail to register with the state registry should face felony charges, says Rep. Rick Jones, a Republican from Grand Ledge. And he says he is going to introduce legislation to make that happen.
The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood continues his media blitz regarding the Adrian Hill case. Hill, convicted of accosting a minor for a sexual purpose, had stopped registering with police as a sex offender three years ago. He was arrested after Heywood tipped off the police on his whereabouts. Here’s the video of his appearance Wednesday [...]
The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood was a guest on Fox and Friends this morning discussing the case of Adrian Hill, the Lansing man arrested due to his investigation after failing to register as a sex offender for the past three years. Video below the fold.
The arrest of Adrian Hill, a man who had evaded authorities for the last three years and was one of the Lansing Police Department’s most wanted fugitives, has shed new light on what policy makers and law enforcement say are significant problems with the state’s sex offender registry.
Michigan is not the only state that has seen a major increase in the number of people on sex offender registries in the last few years. Stateline.org has a report on similar problems in other states, driven in part by a law that requires people to register as sex offenders even if the offense they [...]
According to newly released numbers posted on the Michigan State Police’s website, the state’s Sex Offender Registry currently lists 45,546 men, women and children on it. That marks an increase of 1,582 individual registered sex offenders — or an increase of more than 3.6 percent — since 2009′s first-quarter mandatory verification period. The new data, [...]
Despite the many problems and unjust aspects of sex offender registries in the United States, one California legislator wants to replicate the idea internationally, establishing a global sex offender list that could track people from country to country as well as state to state. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Retiring Van Buren County Circuit Judge William C. Buhl is a rarity among Michigan’s mostly reserved black robe set. “When things bother me, I get tired of people talking and saying this is horrible and not doing anything about it,” he said near the beginning of an in-depth interview covering his frustrations with the state’s sex offender laws.
Convicted sex-offender Matthew Freeman of Pittsfield Township may yet find some legal relief — emphasis on the may — according to a new development in the case reported by AnnArbor.com earlier this afternoon. Apparently, Washtenaw County prosecutors are considering dropping charges that Freeman violated the terms of the Michigan Sex Offender Registry Act… by living [...]
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