EVENING NEWS ASS'N v. CITY OF TROY

Docket No. 47228.

101 Mich. App. 650 (1980)

300 N.W.2d 667

THE EVENING NEWS ASSOCIATION v. CITY OF TROY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided November 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile (by James E. Stewart and John J. Ronayne, III), for plaintiff.

William S. Wolanin, City Attorney, for defendant City of Troy.

John A. Lyons, P.C., for Troy Police Department.

Amici Curiae:

L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, and Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, for the Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Vincent J. Leone, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Before: M.F. CAVANAGH, P.J., and R.M. MAHER and D.F. WALSH, JJ.


D.F. WALSH, J.

Pursuant to the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq. (hereinafter FOIA), plaintiff sought disclosure of certain incident reports compiled by two officers of the Troy Police Department. Plaintiff appeals the decision of the circuit court that due to the ongoing criminal investigation the records were exempt from disclosure because disclosure would...

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