Adrian, MI – Residents throughout Michigan will soon experience a fairer and more rational criminal justice system, thanks to a plan spearheaded by state Representative Bronna Kahle that was signed into law.
Representative Kahle said the new laws eliminate unnecessary driver’s license suspensions and end the over-criminalization of low-level traffic offenses in Michigan. Both pieces of legislation received unanimous bipartisan support in the House and Senate before being signed into law by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
A task force found Michigan’s jail population had tripled in just 35 years, and most admissions were for misdemeanors and low-level offenses.
Representative Kahle helped lead a bipartisan coalition of state legislators who developed a plan of action based on the task force’s recommendations, with a goal of reducing barriers to employment for people who commit minor infractions and refocusing the use of jail and other public resources on cases that truly involve a danger to the public.
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