Kalamazoo FOC Posted Another Perfect Record in 2024: Zero Grievances Acknowledged, Zero Corrective Actions. Now the 2025 Report Is Missing.

The 40th Annual Grievance Report confirms the pattern continued. Two grievances filed, both ruled nongrievable, no action taken. The 2025 report, due this month by the bureau's own five-year publishing schedule, has not appeared.

KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 13, 2026 The Michigan Supreme Court's State Court Administrative Office published its 40th Annual Grievance Report in April 2025, covering calendar year 2024. The data for Kalamazoo County is consistent with every year before it.

In 2024, two grievances were filed against the Kalamazoo County Friend of the Court. Both were classified as nongrievable. Zero were acknowledged in full. Zero were acknowledged in part. Zero corrective actions were taken. No policies were changed. No personnel actions occurred.

This extends the pattern to six consecutive years. From 2020 through 2024, not a single grievance filed in Kalamazoo County has resulted in any corrective action. The denial and nongrievable rate remains 100 percent.

Here is the six-year record for Kalamazoo County:

2020 — 4 grievances filed. 0 acknowledged. 0 corrective actions.

2021 — 2 grievances filed. 0 acknowledged. 0 corrective actions.

2022 — 6 grievances filed. 0 acknowledged. 0 corrective actions. 83% ruled nongrievable (statewide avg: 23%).

2023 — 6 grievances filed. 0 acknowledged. 0 corrective actions.

2024 — 2 grievances filed. 0 acknowledged. 0 corrective actions. Both ruled nongrievable.

Six years. 20 grievances. Zero corrective actions. Zero policy changes. Zero personnel actions. 100 percent denial or dismissal rate.

Statewide in 2024, 372 grievances were filed across 53 FOC offices. Even with an overall denial rate of 72.4 percent, 14 grievances were acknowledged in full and 32 in part. 14 offices changed policy. 25 personnel actions were taken. Other counties found merit in complaints. Kalamazoo did not. Not once. Not in six years.

The Kalamazoo County FOC still has no Citizen Advisory Committee. In 2024, the only other county with an active CAC besides Macomb was Kent County. Kent dissolved its committee in October 2024. Michigan now has one county with independent FOC oversight out of 75.

The SCAO FOC Bureau has published its annual grievance report every April for at least five consecutive years. The 2020 report came in April 2021. The 2021 report in April 2022. The pattern held through the 2024 report in April 2025. The 2025 report, which would be the 41st annual grievance report covering calendar year 2025, has not been published. We are now in mid-April 2026.

The 41st Annual Grievance Report covering calendar year 2025 has not been published. The SCAO FOC Bureau has maintained an April publication schedule for five consecutive years. As of April 13, 2026, the report is not available.

The Kalamazoo Transparency Act will publish the 2025 data as soon as the report becomes available. Until then, the public is left with six years of data that all say the same thing. The grievance process in Kalamazoo County does not work. It has never worked. And the report that would tell us whether anything changed in 2025 is missing.

“Six years of data. 20 grievances. 100 percent denied or dismissed. And now the report that would show year seven is late. The families of Kalamazoo County deserve to know why,” stated Kalamazoo Transparency Act.

About the Kalamazoo Transparency Act

The Kalamazoo Transparency Act is a public interest data project that extracts court data from government reports published by the Michigan Supreme Court State Court Administrative Office and makes it accessible to the public. The project covers the 9th Circuit Court, 8th District Court, and Probate Court of Kalamazoo County. All data is sourced from publicly available government publications and can be independently verified. For more information, visit www.kalamazootransparencyact.com.

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