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The same year, an "uproar" occurred after the civil rights commission, which oversees the department, unanimously voted to pay a $24,740 bonus to department executive director Agustin Arbulu in a secret meeting that violated Michigan's open meetings law. [9] [10] The commission ultimately agreed to "redo the bonus vote" in open session. [11]
The Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...
According to The Detroit News and the Associated Press, on a bipartisan basis, he fostered and worked with "allies in the legislative and executive branches" helping to pass model laws, including one of the first state consumer protection act, freedom of information act, and open meeting law. The two latter laws opened up public administration ...
The lawsuit’s allegation that a decision on the ordinance was reached in violation of state open meetings law is based on the proceedings at the Feb. 6 meeting of the mayor and commission at ...
The court would hear Open Meetings, Freedom of Information and Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights acts cases. From the late 1970s to November 12, 2013, the Circuit Court 30th District (Ingham County, home to the capital) acted as the state's courts of claim. [7] Federal courts located in Michigan
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Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]