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Michigan Public Safety Coordination and Violent Offender Accountability Act

Status: PassedState: MichiganIssue: Crime
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Summary

This bill creates a voluntary statewide crime data-sharing and analytic support program in Michigan focused on violent crime, repeat offenders, warrants, and case outcomes. It also adds privacy safeguards, error-correction procedures, targeted grants for high-crime areas, and annual public reporting on results and accountability.

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The people of the State of Michigan enact that the Department of State Police shall establish a standardized voluntary crime data-sharing and analytic support program with county sheriffs, municipal police departments, prosecutors, and courts to improve timely reporting on violent crime patterns, warrant status, and repeat violent offender case outcomes; that participation shall require written data-use standards, audit trails, privacy safeguards, and procedures to correct erroneous records; that no person shall be deprived of any legal right based solely on inclusion in a tracking system; that the department shall prioritize competitive grant support for evidence-based enforcement, witness protection, case clearance, and violence interruption efforts in jurisdictions with persistently high violent crime rates; and that an annual public report shall measure participation, clearance rates, recidivism trends, response times, and grant performance to ensure accountability and due process.

Judicial Review

No judicial review

No Supreme Court cases are currently attached to this law.

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Sponsor

Lochlan AshfordRepublican Party

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Michigan Public Safety Coordination and Violent Offender Accountability Act

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This bill awaits the Governor's action. Deadline: 2026-07-22 14:05:00 (UTC).
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This bill has been enacted via no action (pocket pass) at the Governor review deadline.
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Result: passed.
Aye: 98 seats
Nay: 0 seats
Present: 2 seats
Total seats: 100
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Michigan is not being asked to choose between public safety and civil liberties here. This bill is built around a voluntary data-sharing and analytic support system aimed at violent crime, repeat offenders, outstanding warrants, and case outcomes—the places where coordination failures do the most damage. When dangerous people slip through gaps between agencies, ordinary families pay the price.
I know some members will worry that any statewide crime database can become sloppy, overbroad, or unfair. That concern is legitimate, and it is exactly why the privacy safeguards, error-correction procedures, and annual public reporting matter. If the state is going to help departments connect the dots, it also has to guarantee that bad information can be challenged and corrected.
What I like most is that this is not just another slogan bill. It pairs accountability with targeted support for high-crime areas, and it asks a basic question government ought to answer: are repeat violent offenders actually being tracked through arrest, warrant, prosecution, and outcome? If not, we should fix that with competence, not ideology.
From where I sit in Wyoming, this reads like practical governance: give local agencies better tools, keep participation voluntary, protect the public, and measure results honestly. For that reason, I support the bill.
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