Blog tagged as Law Enforcement

Sen. Jim Runestad presented a letter Wednesday from the Michigan State Police (MSP) that it has no record of Sen. Sarah Anthony (D-Lansing) reporting that a gun was pointed at her on the House floor during a COVID protest from 2020.

The Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) is looking into how at least 32 Detroit Police Department officers appear to have been working without active law enforcement officer licenses.

An exoneree would face fewer hurdles to receiving state compensation for having been wrongfully convicted under a Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit) bill that received a hearing Wednesday in the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee.

Bright Spark Strategies' co-founder will head to trial on charges related to a "dark money scheme" to fund the 2020 Unlock Michigan ballot committee created to repeal the law the Governor used for COVID-era executive orders.

New Senate bills give Michigan seniors and "vulnerable adults," who are unable to live on their own, access to a restraining order system under which they could petition against people they fear won't leave their property, or who have exploited them financially or tampered with their care.