With Flint’s water samples still containing unsafe levels of lead clearly the crisis is far far from over but there seems to be some movement (yes, it’s not enough) as 6 more state employees have been criminally charged.
The Huffington post reported:
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, announced the charges against the six state employees on Friday morning.
“The families of Flint will not be forgotten,” Schuette said at a press conference Friday. “Those who committed crimes will be held accountable.”
Friday’s announcement brings the total number of Flint water crisis criminal charges to nine, plus two civil suits against private companies that consulted on the city’s water situation.
The people charged Friday are Nancy Peeler, Corrine Miller, Robert Scott, Liane Shekter-Smith, Patrick Cook and Adam Rosenthal, all current or former employees of either the state Department of Environmental Quality or the Department of Health and Human Services.
The charges stem from the state’s failure to follow proper treatment protocols after switching the city’s water source to the Flint River in 2014. Contrary to federal regulations, state officials failed to add corrosion inhibitors to prevent the river water from leaching lead from the city’s pipes.
“The result was water was poisoned and children were exposed to extremely high levels of lead which may impede their growth and development for the rest of the their lives,” Schuette said.
Still. We all need to keep pushing for more investigations and not let Flint be forgotten or those at the top to get away wit this.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flint-water-charges_us_579b6225e4b0e2e15eb5792d
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