LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is upset that the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not responding to her requests for information.
Nessel posted recently on X: “ICE has continued to ignore requests for basic information about the warehouse from my office, local officials, and residents. Through this FOIA request, we demand answers.”
But Nessel’s own office has a history of stonewalling public information requests that go to her office.
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie LeDuff said that he put in a Freedom of Information Act request to Nessel’s office to get documents regarding nursing home patients during the pandemic. LeDuff said that the AG’s office requested $3,147.90 for the documents. Nessel’s office cashed LeDuff’s check, but then waited more than 150 days before releasing the documents. And LeDuff said that almost all the information released had been redacted.
Michigan FOIA law is vague on when documents have to be released once payment is rendered.
