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In today's newsletter:

  • How could Lansing's new ordinance change local housing assistance funding?
  • How aggressive will East Lansing police be this football weekend?
  • Who's really using East Lansing's license plate camera data—and how often?

Also on today's calendar: Soul Happens and 5 more events.

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  • Saturday: Humid; a stray a.m. t-storm, with a high of 77 and low of 54 degrees.
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 77, low: 55.
  • Monday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 78 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• City of Lansing, Notice of Public Hearing, Sept. 14, 2026, to amend Chapter 230 of the Lansing Codified Ordinances (lansingcitypulse.com) — Lansing City Council will hold a Sept. 14 public hearing on a proposed ordinance to earmark part of the city's Basic Human Services budget for safe, secure housing assistance for residents. If you rely on or care about local housing support, you're encouraged to attend, send a representative, or submit written comments to City Hall before the meeting.
   

• Retired assistant police chief weighs in on ELPD's Welcome Weekend tactics (wlns.com) — East Lansing police will again have a heavy presence downtown this weekend as Michigan State's football season gets underway, following 35 arrests and 134 citations during Welcome Weekend. A retired Detroit assistant chief and local police monitors are questioning some crowd-control tactics, while ELPD reviews video and weighs how visible officers will remain through the season.
   

• Thousands of Weekly Searches Tap Into ELPD's Flock Data. Few Come From Local Police. (eastlansinginfo.news) — A single Flock license plate reader in East Lansing is feeding tens of thousands of weekly searches by police agencies across Michigan, while East Lansing officers use it relatively little themselves. Despite earlier assurances that sharing would be limited to nearby departments like Lansing, the data now reach far-flung agencies, raising fresh privacy and oversight concerns just as Lansing's City Council has urged ending its own Flock contract.
   

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  • So I was blessed with 400 dollars the other day and im homless the crazy part is I didnt keep it spend it booze or drugs I was walking downtown and I saw this person crying me being me walked up to them asked them what was wrong they pulled a paper
    out of there purse and it said 7 days quit for there place and the reason they where getting it is they were exactly 400 dollars short for rent im… (Nextdoor Old Everett)
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🗞 Nearby News

East Lansing

  • Sweeten Your Spartan Tailgate with Bake N' Cakes (wilx.com)
  • 1 Arrested After Threat Closes MSU's Berkey Hall: Police (patch.com)

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  • Meridian Township Legal Notice, Special Use Permit #26028 (New Hope Church), Public Hearing (lansingcitypulse.com)
  • Possible tornadoes investigated as Michigan power outages top 250,000 (wkar.org)

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