BridgeDetroit contributor Kayleigh Lickliter has your council recap: Def Sound’s historic designation, qualifications for Future of Health advisory group and seawall improvement plan delay.
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.
Posted inEnvironment
Proposed Detroit fugitive dust ordinance moves forward
Through BSEED, the city would have the authority to fine violators between $500 and $2,000, with higher fines for repeat violations.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Political and Public Policy Information
Bobby Ferguson banned from city contracts until 2033 amid watchdog probe
Detroit’s inspector general issued a debarment order Tuesday for Bobby Ferguson, a contractor convicted in the corruption scandal with former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Political and Public Policy Information
Wayne County deputies union threatens to ‘rebel’ over courthouse security contract
County officials were focused on addressing safety concerns while the union representing Wayne County’s deputies argued that the county isn’t doing enough to fill vacancies and weakening their union agreement.
Posted inCivic and Community Information
Detroit FY2025 budget hearings: What you need to know
The City Council has 46 budget hearings scheduled this month with hundreds of hours of testimony. We’re going to cover all of them.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Health and Welfare
Contract aims to erase $700 million in medical debt for 300K Wayne County residents
Wayne County is evaluating a two-year, $5 million contract with RIP Medical Debt. Officials say it could wipe out debts for upwards of 300,000 residents
Posted inCivic and Community Information
New Detroit Continuum of Care board member was convicted of sex crime
Alan Rosetto was elected in November and remains on the board that serves vulnerable and homeless individuals
Posted inCivic and Community Information
The Tigers donated $2M worth of tickets to Detroit groups. Only half were used.
A DDA committee received a Monday update on how the free ticket program fared in 2023, the first year in more than two decades that a formal deal determined how tickets should be distributed.
Posted inCivic and Community Information
Bobby Ferguson cites ‘hardships’ in new bid to end court supervision
Convicted contractor cites a BridgeDetroit investigation into $1 million in city contracts awarded to his daughter’s company as a ‘hardship’ as he works to reintegrate into society.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Political and Public Policy Information
City cancels $1M in contracts with firm tied to Bobby Ferguson
The cancellation came to light after BridgeDetroit began asking questions about the connection between Ferguson and his daughter’s company, which shares a business address with Ferguson’s company, on Wyoming Street in Detroit.