https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/22/us/child-sex-abuse-websites-shut-down.html
As it should be, you pieces of shit. None of these freaks should ever feel safe. Ever.
Michigan FOIA proposal would eliminate fees, reduce wait times for public records
Thank you to a reader who sent me this link:
Good for Michigan Representative Garrett, who has introduced a bill to let the sun in on the abuse of sunshine/open records/FOIA laws in Michigan. “You’re not open if you want to charge someone $1,200 for public records,” said Garrett.
Try multiplying that by 10 and that’s what the Michigan State Police charged my Dad for 3,400 pages of their files on Christopher Busch and Greg Green and other limited information. That’s roughly $3.50 a page. The MSP would squeal that they have to pay someone to go through the records and redact before they make copies. Whoever redacted these records did a miserable job. Left some names in and redacted a lot that probably should not have been, and of course did not give any reasons for the redactions. That would have required more court time. As it was, my Dad had to file a lawsuit when the MSP initially refused his FOIA request as it pertained to an “open” case. Right.
This FOIA case settled out of court. I like to picture the state police tossing out this huge sum for the documents thinking “fuck you, go away.” But then they had to take my Dad’s money and pony up. The last thing that agency wants is transparency–on anything. They had to comply with their version of the letter of the law by playing the high dollar game. They really had no intention of complying with the spirit of the law. I’m sure the real smoking gun documents and tape recorded tips never made it to the files back in the day anyway.
While, as this legislator acknowledges, the bill will require fine-tuning–it’s awesome she is putting this on the table. Even cost reductions and closing the loopholes on how long Michigan agencies drag this stuff out would help. Maybe THEN some news outlet in Oakland County will file a massive FOIA request for the entire OCCK case and do some actual investigative reporting. Or, more likely, a news organization outside of Michigan.
Cops and a prosecutor wouldn’t deal with him, so she did.
And if you are thinking, well that’s maybe what happened with Chris Busch–yeah, maybe. I think it’s more likely that his “suicide” followed closely on the heels of his little pow wow with Larry Wasser (the attempted polygraph on an unrelated CSC with a minor charge). We never learned when that polygraph pow wow took place, just that it was after March 1977 and before late November 1978. Others have speculated that he was an informant for the FBI or other law enforcement, or that he started trying to extort men who were involved with pedophelia and child porn, and this is why he was offed. You don’t extort the big boys and a police informant who turns out to be a serial killer is kind of a big problem.
Interesting that Dr. Arntfield opined in the podcast You Know They Know that police would never be as careless or messy as demonstrated by the Busch death scene. https://www.spreaker.com/user/jreubenappelman/episode6final. The scene was pretty ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the Bloomfield PD’s treatment of the scene and “investigation,” and as the Oakland County medical examiner’s “autopsy” and report on Busch’s death.
No way this young woman should spend another day in jail, let alone life in prison. And what is with these prosecutors who sit on child trafficking cases? WHAT THE FUCK?