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Lansing — The Michigan House has voted unanimously to exempt baby-sitting from day care regulations after the state ordered a woman to stop watching her friend's children before school.
The legislation approved 107-0 Wednesday next goes to the Senate.
In August, the Michigan Department of Human Services sent a letter to Lisa Snyder of Barry County's Irving Township, south of Grand Rapids.
It warned her that if she continued watching three children for about an hour each day before they got on their school bus, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has instructed the department to work with lawmakers to change the law so people providing free baby-sitting service won't need day care licenses.
Cox offers toolbox to create ethics policies
Warren — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox on Wednesday announced his office is offering municipalities in the state a toolbox for creating ethics policies.
Cox was joined by Warren Mayor Jim Fouts at Warren City Hall to unveil the initiative, which features a Web site that contains information such as how officials can create ethics ordinances, polices related to the state's Open Meetings Act and links to sites with information on state laws.
Cross-border crime task force is unveiled
Detroit — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday unveiled a 50-member task force of federal, state, local and Canadian agencies to combat cross-border crimes.
The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, or BEST, will focus on national security and terrorist threats, human smuggling and trafficking, contraband smuggling, money laundering, bulk cash smuggling, transnational gang activities and other crimes, U.S. attorney Terrance Berg said. The team covers 721 miles.
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