I've been told by the City of Dearborn, MI, legal department, that they will not give me the new address (which they have) of my old next door neighbor I had to sue (yes, theres a Case number already). They said it had to do with MCL 15.243(1)(a). Well I'm no attorney. I can't even find that number or what it says. All I know is that I should be given the infomation from the City, afterall, its public information and I am acting as my own attorney in this suit.

Can someone tell me where to go so I can read this?

Thank you so much.

It's Michigan state statutes. Specifically this section deals with freedom of information. You can read the entire section at

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(tmb...ame=mcl-15-243

In other words, they're telling you that it's not the city's responsibility to track address changes (which, it's not). If you've got some specific document that is within the city's responsibility to maintain, such as a property or tax record, you can ask for that from the specific department in question - but they're not just going to look up an address for you across non-specific records. You'll need to ask for some SPECIFIC record.

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