OTTAWA COUNTY — The health officer for Ottawa County has filed an emergency request with the Michigan Court of Appeals, after a series of unprecedented actions to take control of her department by the chair of the board of commissioners and his hand-picked administrator.
On Friday, Sept. 1, Health Officer Adeline Hambley, through her attorney Sarah Howard, of Grand Rapids-based Pinskey Smith, filed the request with the COA, which is where her ongoing lawsuit currently awaits oral arguments scheduled for Oct. 11.
She sued the commissioners in February, claiming the OI majority repeatedly interfered with her ability to do her job and overreached their authority by attempting to limit her state-authorized health duties.
Hambley argues that the hearing might come too late, as board of commissioners Chair Joe Moss and Administrator John Gibbs have committee “new unlawful acts of retaliation,” including locking Hambley and her staff out of the health department’s social media accounts and cutting them out of the budget process, which is expected to be finalized this month.
Hambley is asking the court to amend its previous ruling to modify a lower court’s preliminary injunction order to “maintain the status quo” or allow the new issues to be remanded back down to circuit court for an evidentiary hearing.
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