The Detroit Free Press has settled its public records lawsuit against the City of Detroit for access to documents involved in a 2019 investigation that found Mayor Mike Duggan gave preferential treatment to a prenatal health program run by a woman with close ties to the mayor.
The Free Press filed the lawsuit last year after the city demanded $222,667 for the records and estimated it would take about three years for legal staff to review the documents, which the city said totaled about 400,000 pages.
Under the settlement, reached in late December in Wayne County Circuit Court, the Free Press dropped its complaint and the city agreed to produce several batches of investigative records for the news organization free of charge. The city admitted no wrongdoing as part of the agreement.
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The public body voted 5-4 to approve a $200,000 contract for the city’s federal litigation against the Detroit Will Breathe movement.
Detroit City Council approved a $200,000 expenditure that will fund a counter-lawsuit against the city’s Black Lives Matter protesters in a 5-4 vote. City attorneys are suing demonstrators associated with the Detroit Will Breathe movement, claiming they engaged in a civil conspiracy during last summer’s marches. But the protestors sued the city first. Their federal complaint alleges the Detroit Police Department used excessive force to stop demonstrators from exercising their First Amendment rights. A federal judge issued a restraining order against DPD’s use of rubber bullets, chokehold and tear gas against peaceful protesters following the protester lawsuit.
Many of the citations in Detroit, the city said, stemmed from a citywide curfew on May 31 and June 1-2 that prohibited activity after 8 p.m. unless it was connected to work, going to the doctor, pharmacy or grocery store and for disruptive and violent behavior.
Protesters against police brutality sued the city of Detroit on Monday, seeking to ban police from using batons, riot gear, tear gas and rubber bullets against them.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court claims Detroit police used those objects to fracture bones, inflict baseball-size lumps and concussions, collapse lungs and cause other injuries that left Black Lives Matter protesters hospitalized and disoriented during marches in Detroit that started on May 29.
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