CAYMC Randolph entrance closed
The on-going construction on the north side of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (CAYMC) has forced the closure of the walkway and accessibility to the Randolph entrance effective Nov. 7.
Access and egress to the CAYMC for any after-hours election challenges will be from the Larned entrance.
Michigan Ban on ballot selfies will stand during election
DETROIT (AP) — The fight over selfies at Michigan voting booths appears to be over for now.
A federal appeals court said Thursday it won’t revisit the decision of one of its three-judge panels.
A federal judge in Grand Rapids had signed an injunction suspending Michigan’s ban on ballot photos. But in a 2-1 decision, the order was set aside by the appeals court last week.
The challenge to Michigan’s ban isn’t dead. But the lawsuit by Joel Crookston won’t be fully litigated until after the election.
Crookston argues that the ban on photos violates the First Amendment. The state says voters are free to declare their political preferences to the world — if they do it away from a polling place. The state says it’s trying to avoid “chaos.”
Michigan funeral home’s handling of bodies under scrutiny
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Flint funeral home that offers discounted cremations to Lansing residents faces disciplinary action after a state inspector found decomposing bodies in the funeral home’s garage.
The Lansing State Journal reports Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s office filed four complaints against Swanson Funeral Home of Flint in September for gross negligence, incompetence, violation of a rule of conduct and an inability to serve the public.
The complaints were filed with the state Board of Mortuary Science on behalf of the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs after Leslie-Springport Funeral Homes director Darin Vickers was appalled by what he found when he visited the home to pick up a body last year.
Bailiffs cleared in fatal shooting of inmate
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — Two bailiffs involved in the fatal shooting of a jail inmate at a southwest Michigan courthouse in July won’t be criminally charged in the incident.
Berrien County Prosecutor Michael Sepic said Wednesday that the shooting of inmate Larry Gordon, 44, was justified, clearing bailiffs Milt Russell and Rick Lull of criminal responsibility in his death.
Sepic said he based his decision on interviews with witnesses and courthouse employees, police reports, photographs, autopsy reports, courthouse video and a letter Gordon wrote to his ex-wife saying he was going on the run or would die trying because he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Gordon was facing possible life in prison on rape and kidnapping charges involving a 17-year-old girl.
Police said Gordon attacked and disarmed Deputy James Atterberry Jr. and wounded him. Bailiffs Ronald Kienzle, 63, and Joseph Zangaro, 61, rushed to the area and were shot and killed.
No other inmates have been found criminally accountable in connection with the incident.
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