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Michigan ballot drive would subject governor, lawmakers to FOIA David Eggert Updated:  Tags:  Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) LANSING, Mich. – Advocates for open government said Monday that they will launch a 2022 ballot drive to subject Michigan's governor and Legislature to public-records requests. Michigan is one of just two states that wholly exempt the governor's office and is among eight states where lawmakers are explicitly exempt. Bills to end the exemptions from the 1976 Freedom of Information Act have stalled in the Republican-controlled Se...

Michigan voters could have a say in whether the state Legislature and governor are opened to public information requests under a new initiative being pursued by the group Progress Michigan.

LANSING — Michigan is saddled with a failing grade on government transparency as one of just two states that exempts the governor and legislators from public records requests, but voters could have the choice to change that in 2022 if lawmakers don’t do it first. Progress Michigan on Monday announced plans for an initiative that will propose “full repeal” of exemptions in the state’s Freedom of Information Act, which requires officials at all other levels of government to release emails and other documents to the public upon request. Transparency advocates in the Michigan Legislatur...

I find it abhorrent that the highest-ranking Republican in Michigan, Sen. Mike Shirkey, perpetrates lies and conspiracy theories.

An advocacy group is renewing its call for Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey to resign after video surfaced of the Clarklake Republican making controversial...