In her veto letter, the governor wrote she would support a separate bill creating new judge positions in Ottawa and several other counties in Michigan.
A 2019 decision by the Michigan Supreme Court might make that job more challenging.
Starting Jan. 1, 2022, personal information such as date of birth and driver s license numbers will not be visible to the public on online court records after revisions to Michigan court rules.
The revisions were adopted in May 2019 with an original rollout date of July 1, 2020.
The ruling s original rollout date was postponed to give courts time to update their systems. More than two years ago, the Court approved revisions of court rules to protect PII; however, the Court decided today that an additional six months are needed to complete reprogramming of court computer systems and to enable courts and users to implement necessary revisions in their practices to accommodate the new rules, the Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Office said in a release.
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After more than a year of waiting, the Livingston County Court System will resume jury trials starting June 14.
That trial, a drunken driving case, will take place in Livingston County Chief Judge Michael Hatty s courtroom.
He said he chose to do a drunken driving case as the first case back because those cases typically require fewer potential jurors, allowing for the court to work through any glitches in the jury selection process. I won t have to have more than 50 jurors in the jury pool, Hatty said. If it were a capital case, I would have to have 100 potential jurors.
Once selected, jurors will be seated on one side of the courtroom gallery facing the bench rather than in the designated juror box. This will allow for additional spacing, Hatty said.