Overdue legislation that sounds fair to me. Thoughts?

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"Two lawmakers from Detroit — state Sen. Sylvia Santana and state Rep. Tyrone Carter — introduced legislation that received bipartisan support to create an exception for law enforcement agencies, allowing them to recoup training costs from new recruits who spend fewer than four years working for an agency.

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"While most academies charge recruits tuition, the Detroit Police Department operates its own training academy at a cost of about $35,000 per attendee and provides wages and benefits to trainees, according to LeValley.

"He said 58% of officers who left the department since 2020 had fewer than four years of service with the Detroit Police Department. Among those who left, the cost to the department of recruiting, hiring and training them was an estimated $6,389,000, he said.

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"The legislation signed by Whitmer creates a sliding scale for repaying training costs based on how long an officer spent at the department before leaving to work at another law enforcement agency.

"If an officer spends less than a year, the agency could recoup 100% of the cost of the training up to the officer's first-year salary. But if an officer spends more than three but less than four years, the agency could only recover 25% of the cost up to the officer's salary for their first year of employment.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/pol...s/70314210007/