Michigan Schools Lose Legal Challenge on Public Safety Fund Law

Dozens of Michigan school districts and officials lost a challenge Wednesday to a new state law that mandates districts, in exchange for public safety funds, waive legal privileges after a mass casualty event.

Michigan Court of Claims Judge Sima G. Patel rejected all the arguments against the law made by the schools and ruled in favor of the state defendants on summary disposition motions. She said the law—which deals with money to address student mental health and school safety—isn’t unconstitutionally vague, and wrote that “the statutory language is clear in context and the situations in which the district’s privilege waiver ...