Governor Whitmer announced Monday the stay-at-home order will likely be extended past April 13th, keeping all non-essential business closed. And county prosecutors are continuing to enfoce the order.
As businesses across the state are shut-down or limiting services … county prosecutors are investigating resident’s complaints about businesses they don’t think should be open.
Midland County Prosecutor J. Dee Brooks said many of the complaints they investigated only needed to shut down specific services, not the entire business.
“There have been a few that we indicated and they did need to be shut down. But I would definitely say the majority of them were businesses that were providing services or going beyond what we felt was allowed.”
Brooks said his office receives only a handful of complaints each day about businesses that may be breaking the order. He says although the shut down may hurt businesses, it is a necessary measure for public health.