​Child Welfare Services

• MDHHS and Courts Partner to Return Children Home from Foster Care during COVID-19​ (April 28)
  
  
• COVID-19 Parenting Time and Reunification in Foster Care Cases​ (March 30)
  
  
• ​​USDHHS Lette​r Regarding IV-E Funding​ (March 27)
  
  

Emergency Court Response to COVID-19

Evictions and Landlord Tenant

Juvenile Detention Guidance

• Governor's Executive Order 2020-37: Extension of Temporary Restrictions on Visitors at Health Care and Juvenile Justice Facilities​  (April 5)
• SCAO Memo: Juvenile Detention Placements  (March 30)
• Governor's Executive Order: Protocols on Jail, Local Lockup, Juvenile Detention Center Transfers (March 29)
• SCAO Memo: Juvenile Detention and Probate Temporary Guardianships 
  (March 26 from Regional Administrators)

Remote Notarization

• Remote Notarization​ (April 20)​

Reporting

• Reporting Deadlines Suspended (with exceptions)
  Memo from Tom Boyd (April 8)

Miscellaneous

• FEMA Public Assistance Grant Program​

  Applicants for emergency cost share funding available through FEMA's Pubic Assistance Program must attend a virtual applicant briefing to qualify for funding.

  (May 6)​

• Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Remote Proceedings​
  Updated to provide direction on questions regarding live streaming PPO hearings
  (May 1)

• ​Collection of Contact Information and Notice of Remote Hearings​
  

  To assist courts with scheduling of remote hearings and to facilitate participation by parties, the Michigan Supreme Court has issued Administrative Order No. 2020-13 and the State Court Administrative Office has created two new forms and a resource with additional guidance.  (April 29)​

• FY 2020 Federal Funding Opportunities (April 21)
• Thank You and Mid-April Updates from Tom Boyd​  (April 16)
  
• The Future is Now to Decriminalize Mental Illness  (April 13)
  
• Essential Functions​
  Memo from Chief Justice McCormack regarding essential functions​​  (March 23)
• Employee Rights: Paid sick leave and expanded family and medicial leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act​​
  
• Message to Courts Regarding Zoom  (April 2)
• News Release
  Jail Population Reduction to Curb the Spread of COVID-19;
  Jails Task Force recommendations are a roadmap for the short and long term
  (April 1)
• Joint Statement​
  Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack, Michgian Supreme Court, and Sheriff Matt Saxton (ret.), Executive Director, Michigan Sheriffs' Association  (March 26)
• Judicial Emergency E-mail to Trial Courts​  (March 11)
• Judicial Emergency E-mail to Trial Courts​  (March 10)​