Hiding records. Losing records. STONEWALLING the TRUTH!-----Michigan Cannot Determine Whether Some COVID-19 Deaths Originated at Nursing Homes

Michigan Cannot Determine Whether Some COVID-19 Deaths Originated at Nursing Homes

• Charlie LeDuff settles FOIA lawsuit against the state health department
  

MIDLAND, Mich. — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff, represented by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, has reached a settlement agreement with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services after it failed to provide public records as required by law. 
After noticing that state data was showing a growing number of deaths reported from reviews of vital records, LeDuff submitted a Freedom of Information Act request asking for the ages of those who had died, the date of death, when each death was added to the state total and whether any of those deaths were the results of contracting COVID-19 at a long-term care facility. 

MDHHS failed to produce the records in response to the request, so LeDuff contacted the Mackinac Center to represent him in a FOIA lawsuit...Read all.