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Commissioner Nakagiri to pursue resolution to share de‑identified health claims data; raises concerns about media coverage of alleged ‘fake’ hate crimes
Summary
During commissioner comments at the April 15 Livingston County meeting, Commissioner Nakagiri said he will seek a board resolution to allow de‑identified county health claims data to be shared with Dr. McChord and described findings from a FOIAed police report he said showed a prior vandalism report was prosecuted as a false report.
Commissioner Nakagiri told colleagues at the April 15 Livingston County Board meeting he will work with Jennifer Palmbusch to draft a resolution for the personnel committee that would permit the county to share de‑identified health claims data with Dr. McChord.
"I think it's very appropriate that we pass a resolution to do that as opposed to making a unilateral decision from personnel to share that data," Nakagiri said, describing the data as de‑identified and saying the board should authorize the sharing rather than staff acting alone.
Nakagiri also reported he had FOIAed a Green Oak Township police report concerning a vandalism allegation tied to a 2021 Howell event. He said the person who filed the original report was arraigned on a felony charge of attempted false pretenses, later pled down to a misdemeanor false report, and was ordered to pay $775 in fines and costs. Nakagiri said a separate alleged "fake hate crime" occurred two years later and that he found roughly 30 media stories that treated the events as real while he found only one that characterized them as false.
"We need to consider a way to get the truth out there because we cannot rely on the media," Nakagiri said, adding he has considered posting the objectively verifiable records on the county website so they are publicly available.
Nakagiri framed both items as matters he intends to pursue administratively and legislatively within the county; he did not present a proposed resolution text during the meeting and did not announce a committee date. No formal board action was taken on either the proposed data‑sharing resolution or on the media‑coverage matter during the April 15 meeting.
Other commissioners offered routine comments and the meeting adjourned.
