Michigan Supreme Court puts Detroit charter revisions back on ballot, pending appeals court decision
Michigan Supreme Court puts Detroit charter revisions back on ballot, pending appeals court decision
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The Detroit City Charter is undergoing a revision process that s been met with legal hurdles.
The Michigan Supreme Court put a halt Tuesday on a recent Wayne County court order that took proposed revisions to Detroit s charter off the Aug. 3 ballot.
So what happens now? Charter revisions are back on the ballot, according to the city. But that could change depending how the Court of Appeals rules. The Supreme Court, ultimately, has put the decision in the appellate court s hands.
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To keep the coronavirus from spreading, almost every group interaction has been digitized over the past year. Grocery shopping, weddings, funerals, and some government meetings have been taking place in our homes for more than a year.
Now, amid a decrease in coronavirus cases and an increase in vaccination rates, a local public health emergency order that would keep public meetings virtual expires June 30. The order was extended May 20 by Detroit Chief Health Officer Denise Fair.
The transition to virtual meetings in Detroit has been relatively smooth save for technical difficulties and expanded the accessibility of public meetings for both disabled and able-bodied attendees.
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Detroit The city s Election Commission voted Thursday to place controversial proposed revisions to the city s charter before Detroit voters on Aug. 3.
The Detroit Charter Revision Commission s plan, coined Proposal P, has faced criticism from the administration of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who have warned that costs associated with implementing its various provisions would send the city back into bankruptcy and prompt active oversight by its Financial Review Commission.
The commission voted 2-1 in favor of adding the proposal to the ballot as submitted to Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey on March 11. Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones and Winfrey voted yes. Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia voted no.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/511322.html (Natural News) A resident of Farmington Hills, Michigan filed a federal lawsuit after he was arrested based on facial recognition technology. Attorneys representing Robert Williams filed the suit on April 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The 75-page lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount in damages for “the grave harm caused by the misuse of – and reliance upon – facial recognition technology.”
The lawsuit says Williams’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated. In addition, it said his arrest in January 2020 violated the Michigan Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. Aside from the city of Detroit, Police Chief James Craig and detective Donald Bussa – both from the