Flint e-mails: State, city appear unable to share info

[SpartanDem]

Source: Detroit Free Press

More than eight months before Gov. Rick Snyder disclosed a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint area, federal health officials worried a lack of cooperation in Michigan could be hampering the public health response.

Thousands of pages of e-mails obtained by the Detroit Free Press on Monday show increasing concern about the quality of the Flint's drinking water as tensions grew over a lack of coordination to combat the waterborne disease.

County health officials were warned for reaching out to federal experts for help while they struggled to persuade Flint city officials to provide needed information, the e-mails show. Others in e-mails wondered about ethical breaches and the possibility of a cover-up.

In sum, a review of the e-mails provided by Genesee County from several public-information requests appear to illustrate the inability, if not unwillingness, of city and state agencies to share information with the county as it investigated multiple Legionnaires' cases. The clash among bureaucrats went on privately for months despite growing fears inside Flint among residents that something was deeply wrong with the city's drinking water.



Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/09/flint-e-mails-state-city-appear-unable-share-info/80028820/

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I'd be really interested to see the EM's and Gov's emails during this time period

[Hoppy]

1. Anyone found to be inhhibiting the exchange of information should be indicted.

[wordpix]

2. because information is more deadly than polluted water and disease to Snyder

Indict him!

[turbinetree]

3. We the taxpayers of this country are paying for this mess........................

and anyone that was "appointed" or elected and gave carte blanche (from the state courts, legislature) to have done this needs to resign from there position they have no business running anything, let alone a government, and they should be paying for this out of there own pockets---------------this is outrageous





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