Staffers with BridgeDetroit, Detroit Documenters and Outlier Media will offer summaries and key points from each of the hearings.
Kayleigh Lickliter
Kayleigh Lickliter is a freelance reporter from the metro Detroit area. She joined the BridgeDetroit team as a contributor in 2021 to track how the city was spending over $800 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding. Before entering the local news industry in Detroit, Lickliter was a private investigator in multiple sectors.
She diligently holds the city to its promises, which has led to quick, sometimes decisive, action by government officials.
As a proud Detroit Documenter, she has live-tweeted over 120 Detroit and Wayne County public meetings. Her first investigative story for BridgeDetroit was featured on the front page of the Detroit Free Press. Her reporting uncovered the city’s use of cemetery dirt as backfill and Proposal N advisory board meetings that were held behind closed doors and without notice to Detroit residents.
Lickliter understands the complexities of local government and the bureaucratic barriers that Detroiters often face. Coupled with her unique eye for the details that make information newsworthy, she is an asset to every newsroom she works with.
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