Eaton County

I'm Paul Egan reporting for the Detroit Free Press.

In the November race for Michigan Attorney General, is one prosecutor tough on crime and the other one soft? That's how Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd, the Republican candidate, has framed his race against Democrat Ellie Savitt, the prosecutor in Washtenaw County.

But 2025 case data obtained by the Detroit Free Press doesn't support those talking points.

Washtenaw is much bigger and more urban than Eaton County, so no simple comparisons are possible.

But the stats show Savitt's assistant prosecutors, with an average of 69 new felony cases each, were much busier than Lloyd's were, with an average of 46 each.

When it came to domestic violence, a crime that is just as prevalent in rural areas as urban ones, Washtenaw charged far more cases, even accounting for population.

So a couple other rare bird sightings here in southern Michigan.

Magnolia warbler in Eaton County.

A white rump sandpiper in Hillsdale County.

And a snow goose here in Kalamazoo.

Talk about other ways that when you served as the forty-fourth District representative, that you bolstered Calhoun County.

Well, one of the things we, we did is ensure that we supported an initiative which funded major highway improvements in Calhoun County, and this includes the two hundred and ten million dollars reconstruction of twenty-five miles of I-sixty-nine between, uh, Marshall and into, uh, southern Eaton County.

Charlotte, I navigated that for a number of years and typically often bypass that by going up sixty-six to seventy-eight and then picking up sixty-nine in Charlotte.

But sometimes it wasn't possible to do that conveniently, especially when there happened one period of time to close Battle Creek Road between Bellevue and Charlotte for a few weeks.

Patrice Johnson of the Michigan Fair Elections Institute on the record, she said basically that she's using the Scott case to intimidate and control Michigan clerks.

And Doug Lloyd, the Eaton County prosecutor, says this is another example of Dana Nessel putting partisan law fare ahead of the facts and evidence.

Well, Stephanie Scott won, and she is still paying her own lawyer to defend the win.

So you can see how this whole thing ties together when you start talking about Nancy Juanita Williams, who was a professional guardian at Oak Park.

And not only did I have the honor of meeting him, but I also had the honor of getting to have dinner with him, and this was the day before the conference happened.

And a big shout-out to my friend Kelly, Kelly Flynn, who is the director out at Eaton County.

And so as, as I said, I had the chance to meet with Alex.

And so one of the, one of the things that was going on was we wanted to, to have a meeting about some things that he is doing, and he's, he was looking for someone to partner with for a, to bring a program To a camp that he has already.

We got a few here in Lansing.

We're in Eaton County, Clinton County, Shiawassee County, Livingston County, uh, Oakland County, everywhere across the district.

We got a big list.

And we can get a hold of you through the website Contact Us?

LCC is on there.

If you're in the Eaton County portion of the city, we can send over.

Eaton County has a couple of proposals.

And then the city has two proposals.

So one is renewing our policy.

Larry Nassar, remember that doctor for the US gymnastics team who was raping a bunch of gymnasts over years and years and years, and then he got caught finally and he went to prison for it? He is now being removed from the sex offender registry in the state of Michigan.

According to the Eaton County Prosecutor's Office, the 63-year-old is among more than 20,000 people whose names have been removed from the sex offender list because his violations, Larry Nassar's, occurred before July 1, 2011.

And they have a law now that says we've got to clean up those rolls.

We don't want the people in the state of Michigan to know that somebody was a sex offender before 2011.

but I can't remember.

I think it c- it must go back before tw- 2011, uh, because the brilliant Eaton County Prosecutor's Office, they decided to s- just get rid of anybody who was on the sex offender list before 2011, and that list included Larry Nassar.

And I remember reading and going, "Larry Nassar, Larry Nassar."

He was, uh-