DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC. v. DEPT. OF STATE POLICE

Docket No. 221772.

622 N.W.2d 313 (2000)

243 Mich. App. 218

DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE, Wayne County Clerk and Ingham County Clerk, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided November 3, 2000, at 9:25 a.m.

Released for Publication December 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn (by Herschel P. Fink and Cynthia G. Thomas), Detroit, for the plaintiff.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Thomas Quasarano, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of State Police.

Cohl, Stoker & Toskey, P.C. (by Ruth E. Mason and Richard D. McNulty), Lansing, for the Ingham County Clerk.

Edward Ewell, Jr., Wayne County Corporation Counsel, and Harnetha W. Jarrett, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Detroit, for the Wayne County Clerk.

Before BANDSTRA, C.J., and GAGE and WILDER, JJ.


BANDSTRA, C.J.

In Mager v. Dep't of State Police, 460 Mich. 134, 595 N.W.2d 142 (1999), the Supreme Court held that information regarding whether private citizens own guns is information of a personal nature, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy for purposes of an exemption from the disclosure requirements under Michigan's Freedom

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