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Ann Arbor officials tell renters commission why some inspection and court data aren’t public and clarify extinguisher rules
Summary
City building and fire officials told the Ann Arbor Renters Commission that STREAM’s current consultant scope does not include inspection-report content or court case results, and explained that single-family rentals are not required to provide fire extinguishers while multi‑unit buildings must provide extinguishers in shared spaces.
Pete Held of Ann Arbor Building Inspection & Rental Services and Fire Chief Mike Kennedy briefed the Renters Commission on April 16 about limits to the city’s public data and the fire-safety rules that affect renters.
Held said a newly approved consulting contract will evaluate internal workflows and the STREAM web interface for application submission and inspection activity “but it's not going to go into inspection reports,” and that court-case outcomes (for example, eviction decisions) are maintained by the 15th District Court and generally are not available in STREAM. He added that code-case complaint files are not public-facing and are vetted to protect residents’ privacy, though staff can provide aggregated or targeted information on ordinance effectiveness on request.
The clarification matters because…
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