Legislative Services
Professional lobbyists provide members with a voice
Law enforcement officers have more of a stake in which laws are passed, and which are not, than virtually any other class of professionals. They are, for example, directly concerned with legislation that:
- Helps them do their jobs more effectively.
- Protects them from unwarranted vulnerability to legal proceedings against them.
- Grants them workers' rights, both as individual employees and as union members.
No law enforcement union can properly represent its members without maintaining close and effective working contacts with lawmakers. No law enforcement union anywhere is more influential or respected in the political arena than MAP.
Karoub and Associates, a highly regarded legislative liaison organization, represents MAP in both Lansing, Michigan and Washington D.C. MAP is joined with the Police Officers Labor Council, Detroit Police Officers Association, Detroit Lieutenants & Sergeants Association, Michigan State Police Troopers Association, Michigan State Police Command Officers Association, Warren Police Officers Association, and the Flint Police Officers Association in the largest police legislative coalition in the state. As a result, members wield considerable influence in the State Legislature and U.S. Congress.
President Biden won Michigan’s Democratic primary election Feb. 27 with 81% of the vote. The uncommitted vote was 13.2% with over 100,368 voters casting ballots for the Democratic party without selecting a specific Democratic candidate.
Former President Donald Trump won 68% of the Republican party vote with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley taking 26.5% of the vote. Three percent of Republicans who voted cast their ballots as uncommitted.
On Feb. 7, Governor Gretchen Whitmer presented her recommendations for a balanced fiscal year 2025 state budget totaling $80.7 billion, which includes $14.3 billion in General Fund and $19 billion in School Aid monies.
Line items in the budget focused on improving public safety and public health, lowering costs, expanding educational opportunities, economic development, and rebuilding the state's infrastructure.
Governor Gretchen Whtimer highlighted her plans to expand educational opportunities, lower costs and boost economic development in her State of the State address Jan. 24. Some of her objectives include: investing $1.4 billion to build or rehabilitate 10,000 affordable homes, providing the first two years of community college free to all Michigan high school graduates, access to free pre-Kindergarten for every 4-year-old, and authorizing the final $700 million in bond funds for repairing roads.
The December 2023 Karoub Report highlights a federal judicial panel's order that 13 Detroit-area legislative districts be redrawn before any future elections.
The judges ruled the districts were unconstitutionally drawn based on race in 2021.
For complete details, click here for the December 2023 Karoub Report.
- 3 bills signed into law Nov. 29th support Michigan public union employees
- Legislature ends session passing clean energy, final disclosure, supplemental bills
- Legislation giving corrections officers, college police, fire authorities arbitration rights headed to Governor
- Governor delivers 'What's Next Address' to state legislators, leaders