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Circuit Court Judge’s Dismissal of FOIA Suit Against Supreme Felons, Inc. Appealed to Michigan Court of Appeals

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 10, 2025

On Sept, 11, 2024 and Sept. 13, 2024 two Freedom of Information Act requests for 2023 financial records were submitted to Billy Cole, President/CEO of the local, county-funded non-profit Supreme Felons, Inc. Cole answered both FOIA…

Courts

Judge Voluntarily Disqualifies Herself in Response to Newspaper’s Motion to Disqualify

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 18, 2025

Motion to Disqualify JudgeDownload by P.D. Lesko On Feb. 18, 2024, the newspaper received an email from Washtenaw County Trial Court Judge Tracy E. Van den Bergh's clerk stating that, in response to a Motion to Disqualify…

Courts

A2Indy Files FOIA Suit Against Supreme Felons, Inc. to Force Release of Public Records

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Dec 2, 2024

by P.D. Lesko On Nov. 21, 2024 the Ann Arbor Independent filed suit in the Washtenaw County 22nd Circuit Court against Supreme Felons, Inc. In Sept. of 2024, the newspaper submitted two Freedom of Information Act requests to Supreme…

County Government

A2Indy Threatened With SLAPP Suit by Washtenaw County DEI Dir. Just Prior to Her Resignation

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Aug 20, 2024

by P.D. Lesko On July 27, the Ann Arbor Independent received an email letter from lawyer Robert Burton-Harris, husband of County Chief Asst. Prosecutor Victoria Burton-Harris. In his letter, Robert Burton-Harris, who specializes in…