The Michigan Department of Human Services says Centerville mother Lisa Snyder needs to get a license as a child care provider. [WZZM via Balko; related story now ongoing in Britain, BBC] And an update on the latter story from the BBC: “Review of babysitting ban ordered“.
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according to the story in mlive the legislature is trying to create a “hotfix”
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/09/mother_in_middleville_ordered.html
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