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Michigan ballot drive would subject governor, lawmakers to FOIA
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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 Senate despite having won widespread bipartisan support in the GOP-led House in 2016, 2017 and 2019.
Lonnie Scott, executive director of the liberal advocacy group Progress Michigan, said the “people of Michigan deserve accountable and transparent government.”
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