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LWVLA ADVOCACY ENSURES TRANSPARENCY IN LBWL DATA CENTER CONTRACTS
On a week’s notice LWVLA wrote a letter to LBWL Board of Commissions encouraging them to ensure that they would review any contracts made between
LBWL management and date centers. The Board was set to vote on a resolution to waive the review at their November 18th meeting.
What happened instead was the LBWL Board of Commissioners announced that the resolution regarding contracts for data centers was being pulled from the agenda with the agreement of management. The Chairman specifically thanked the LWVLA for its interest and comments, 2 other commissioners talked about the public interest and 1 commissioner talked about the calls she received. The board received several comments regarding this important issue. The voice of the community was heard. LBWL management and Board of Commissioners listened.
While LWVLA took the lead in this effort, it was the community that made the difference in making these decisions transparent. News coverage included WILX-TV and WLNS-TV
LWV AIMS TO REPRESENT MICHIGAN VOTERS IN LAWSUIT
The League of Women Voters of Michigan, represented by Campaign Legal Center, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, and the Michigan law firm Goodman Acker, filed a motion on October 31, 2025 to intervene on behalf of voters in US v. Benson, a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice against the state of Michigan for failing to comply with the department’s demand for the state’s complete voter file. The Department of Justice hasn’t provided sufficient justification for seeking this data, which includes sensitive information such as driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
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