Our complaint will describe specifically: 1) a summary description of each discriminatory action or similar
discriminatory actions and the date or time period in ongoing pattern of discrimination, 2) how these actions
were unethical or inhumane, 3) how these actions had an adverse impact on black, Latino and disabled
populations in Michigan compared to other communities, 4) we will show that each of the policies and
procedures we outline were not only unnecessary to achieve an educational goal but also 4) there are more
ethical, humane, safer, and better policies and procedures with respect to their outcomes in use around the
country that would meet the Governor’s stated goals with less of a burden on this disproportionately
affected group than the extreme and discriminatory measures taken by the Governor, and 5) the resulting
harm or retaliation to individuals filing the complaints.
We will discuss the disparate treatment, disparate impact, perpetual effect of discrimination, and impact on
the poor, based on the issue. We do not claim to know every instance of the law, but we, as a group of
hundreds of people feel strongly that we know right from wrong. Beyond that, we know what
discrimination and retaliation feels like. It feels like this.
To maintain anonymity, actual complainant quotes which correspond to the complaints attached to this
summary are cited here by page number in the Complainant booklet.
Actual complaints are an attachment included in the appendix of the document. Unless otherwise noted or
determined at a later date we request that the Department of Justice send responses and questions:
Herman Davis
18428 Cherrylawn St.
Detroit, MI 48221
313-354-6708
or a designee authorized by the above individual.
While we must depend on the Civil Rights Department to judge the merits of the complaint, to help
accomplish a determination of whether or not the circumstance was ethics, the document also relies upon
ethics codes and standards from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University (which
has sponsored an active program of research on government ethics for the last 25 years) and professional
standards for fields corresponding to related issues. We also will rely on the expertise of organizations
which have knowledge about best practices in certain fields.
The theme of this complaint is whether a Government authority can successfully assert that
they are taking a specific action to provide a service (like education) for a group of people
when to achieve those lofty stated goals, they risk the life, health, civil rights, quality of life,
and &