Legal Opinion
Evening News Ass'n v. City of Troy
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided October 24, 1983No. 66268, (Calendar No. 7)PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
William:s, C.J.
(for remand). This is a case of first impression concerning the Michigan Freedom of Information Act. MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq. We are asked to determine whether the identities of two police officers and their incident reports describing the David Prior homicide, which were both requested by the plaintiff newspaper, were properly withheld from disclosure under the FOIA by the City of Troy and its police chief.
Specifically, we must decide, first, whether the Oakland Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the defendants met their statutory…
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