Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Protecting the Public’s Health During a Financial Emergency

FlintReport.pdf

Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Protecting the Public’s Health During a Financial Emergency

Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Protecting the Public’s Health During a Financial Emergency

In January 2018, the de Beaumont Foundation, in partnership with the University of Michigan School of Public Health and The Network for Public Health Law, released a report that examines the complex legal arrangements that contributed to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. The report analyzes the shortcomings in the structure and implementation of laws related to public health, safe drinking water, and emergency financial management, and explores why those laws failed to mitigate the crisis. The partnership produced a Public Health Handbook for Communities Under Emergency Management and an Emergency Manager Law Primer to improve legal preparedness and illustrate how state emergency laws intersect with public health laws.