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Ionia Courts: Corrupt because Staff is Not Held accountable

Judge Schafer is the Chief Judge of Ionia and Montcalm County Courts. That means he is supposed to be the supervisor, and he is the one that is supposed to hold staff under him accountable for the corruption that is allowed by those in power under him.

In September of 2025, a complaint was filed to Schafer regarding Judge Kreeger not ruling based on fact, power tripping against those she is supposed to be serving, and putting children at known risk just to prove to the parent trying to protect his children that she is in charge.

Schafer denied this complaint, claiming the man was merely trying to appeal the decisions made by Kreeger and this is not allowed per complaint procedure. Nothing that was ruled on can be changed at this point: these children were already put at risk, she already charged a father trying to protect his children with contempt of court as she put his children at known risk, and nothing she did can be changed. We are instead seeking accountability so other peoples children and families are not put at risk for no reason.

This father went through a lengthy process to follow procedure to prove that his childrens mothers schizophrenic sister, that the mother had been leaving them alone with for 12+ hours per day while she went to work and then came home and slept for most of the day, would become psychotic and violent around the children. Per her own admission she would get lonely, stop taking her antipsychotic meds so she would have the company of the angry voices in her head to talk to, and would then become violent when arguing and fighting these angry voices, including acting out in front of the children she was being left alone with, punching walls in front of them, stabbing knifes in the air, and threatening to kill people in front of the children, etc.

The father knew the sister was currently psychotic and going in and out of acting out violently as the sister had been stabbing a knife in the air threatening to kill the childrens Aunt Jan. So after following all the procedures, the father and step mother made two separate reports to cps central intake, who failed to respond, never even came and talked to the children. The father tried to work with the mother to get reassurance from her they would not be left alone with the sister anymore and the mother lied and claimed they had not been since the court order was now written stating that the children were not to be left alone with the sometimes psychotic and violent sister. Instead of working with the father to protect the children the mother simply lied to him.

So the man kept his children, made contact with FOC worker Mike Ketchem to let FOC know that he was keeping the children pending a court date, the same procedure the mother had used against him in the past when she had denied him parenting time: except this man had a real reason he needed to protect his children.

In the past the FOC made the father wait until court to prove that the mother had no justification to keep the children from him and he always did. The FOC would not accept proof before the court date that it was not justified, they would just let the mother keep the children from him. When court came and the proof was presented the fathers parenting time would resume, the mother was never held accountable, and he got no make up time, no apology, nothing.

Going back to the father trying to protect his children from something real and known to be a threat to his children, he made contact with the FOC caseworker Mike Ketchem about what he was doing and why. FOC Mike replied, but never told the man he could not do this, he never verified that the children would be ok going back, and yet out of no where he requested Judge Kreeger send the police over to the mans house to forcefully return the children being protected to the mothers house where they would stay and be exposed to psychosis and violence pending the court date instead of with the father trying to protect them, who had followed procedure and did everything he was supposed to. FOC Mike never verified the children would be ok going back before requesting the police be sent over there to take them back. Judge Kreeger never verified that the children would be ok going back, and went ahead and signed off on sending the police over to the fathers house, with no warning, no request for him to return them, nothing that would seem reasonable as a first step.

The children were forced to stay over at the mothers house pending the court date, and could not even sleep at night due to the sisters psychosis and acting out through the night. One of the children emailed the police officer that had picked him up asking for help, with no reply.

The father could not get ahold of Kreeger, obviously the caseworker was not helping and was not on the kids side. Everything from the FOC and courts was a one way dictatorship, against the best interests and safety of the children involved. So the man, out of desperation to protect his children, literally went into the Ionia court to try to talk to Kreeger to figure out why she was putting his kids at risk. Kreeger was very threatening to the man and told him to leave right then, refusing to listen to him or reason.

At court FOC worker Mike Ketchem was confronted about why he requested Kreeger to have the police sent over to take the children by force back over to where they were at risk, before verifying the children would be ok going back there, or what was going on, why he did not even ask the man to return the children before requesting the police be sent over to his house to take his children from safety. Mike replied he did not want to argue with the man. What? That sounds like a dictator, not a public servant. Judge Kreeger told him he probably should have asked the man to return them before requesting the police be sent over there, but nothing about no one verifying the children would be ok going back. No apology, no admission by Kreeger that she had done anything wrong.

In court the mother admitted her sister in fact had been out of her psych meds and was in fact currently psychotic and had been. The mother had lied to caseworker Mike and said nothing was wrong and claimed tha father had no reason to keep them from her, but she was not held accountable after admitting she was lying to him (FOC Mike) to get him to send the police over to the fathers house to take the children back, and force them to stay over at her house pending the court date.

This verified that the father was right, he was in fact justified in keeping the children to protect them pending the court date, but no apology was made to him: instead Kreeger literally charged the father with contempt of court and treated him like he had done something wrong still, instead of admit she had done something wrong when she abused her power and put these children at risk. After Judge Kreeger verified the children had not been safe, and currently were not safe at the mothers house, the mother asked Kreeger if she could keep the kids for one more day and Kreeger ordered the children to stay at the mothers house for yet another day. Kreeger at this point knew the children were and had been being exposed to psychosis and violence the whole time.

Kreeger was also informed that both the father and step mother had in fact filed cps reports trying to get someone to talk to the children, and cps central intake refused to respond. On realizing the whole system had been broken and she was the one required to do something when no one else had, her reply instead was that if cps was not concerned she was not either.

Kreeger has not been held accountable for what she did which means she is free to continue doing it to other people and their children, that is the only thing that can be changed at this point: preventing her from continuing to abuse her power to help the next people that have to deal with her. Yet Chief Judge Schafers reply to the complaint was that the father was merely trying to appeal the decision Kreeger made and this is not allowed per the complaint process, so he denied the complaint and did nothing. This reply dismisses the peoples concerns about the abuse of power and corruption that is putting our children and families at risk, and does not even make sense in the way he used it to dismiss the complaint.

Schafer literally made this his official reply, in writing: as proof he does not care, because no one holds him accountable either.

We started this organization to try to maintain public confidence in the courts when the courts of Ionia are well known to be corrupt, because the judiciary wants to maintain independence. Our goal was to work with the courts to try to clean up the corruption so people could once again have some trust in those that are supposed to be serving them. At this point of attempting to work with the courts to clean up the corruption, the courts are proving to us time and again that the local Ionia courts refuse to hold themselves accountable, they do not care about the corruption and want it to continue.

We were hoping to avoid reaching the point of realizing that in fact the courts will not hold themselves accountable, and the courts in fact do require third party accountability because they refuse to stop the corruption, and they refuse to hold themselves accountable.

Judges and courts are not supposed to be dictators. They are supposed to rule based on facts and serve us, the people. They are supposed to protect our children and us, not be the ones victimizing us just to prove they are in charge.

Judges talk down to and sentence people every day for doing wrong things, yet in Ionia County they are doing more wrong things then the people they are sentencing and are not being held accountable themselves. They talk down to drug addicts about the cycle of addiction that often results in petty crime; but the Ionia Judges and Refs own cycle of addiction to power has resulted in more damage than those committing the petty crimes that they sentence everyday.

Ionia Foc Showcause / Child Support Update

In December of 2024, a show cause hearing was illegally held by Ionia Foc Ref Shermak. She dismissed facts put on the record that she was legally required to consider per the Child Support Calculation Manual she is required to adhere to. Specifically, the child support manual requires that the FOC consider other children in the household and the effect these other children have on the persons ability to work a job. This person stays home and provides full time care for three other children preventing him from being able to leave the house to go get a job, which was put on the court record; yet Ref Shermak concluded that the man could leave the house and go get a job and easily pay the full child support obligation for a fourth child, and she ordered that this man pay the full child support obligation each month, or got to jail. Of course Shermak also added a $100 court fee which is the true FOC motivation for holding show cause hearings, and why they do not care about facts on the record they are required to consider, or following the law when they hold them.

An FOC grievance was filed with the FOC, where as Shermaks response can be summarized: she effectively said, you must file a de novo appeal to the hearing to request the Ionia courts follow the law. By definition of what gives the courts any kind of authority, they are required to follow the law to begin with, not as an after thought on appeal. This means Ref Shermak was saying that if someone does not have enough to pay the full child support amount, she has demonstrated she refuses to consider this as she is required to at the showcause, the whole point of them asking you to show cause of why you did not pay enough as defined by them. Shermak is saying these people that do not have enough to pay the full child support amount must pay the court for the transcript of her illegally held hearing, and then must pay the court to reconsider her illegally held hearing, in order ask the courts a second time if they will please follow the law in the second hearing held by the supervisor (Judge Schafer) that so far in our experience refuses to hold his staff accountable for not following the law/ and not ruling based on facts put on the record. If DHS has approved you for benefits such as medicaid, you can at least file the motion to the courts for free by requesting a fee waiver and providing your case number: but what about the transcript costs of up to 100 dollars or more? And what about people, such as this man, that have not been able to jump through DHS hoops to get approved for these benefits?

The true core of this issue is that the courts are supposed to be self checked and balanced, they are supposed to hold themselves accountable. In exchange for being allowed to follow the honor system, the courts promise they will hold themselves accountable. If this is not done properly locally, the Michigan Tenure Commission exists, promising on a statewide level that they will hold them accountable. You file a complaint with the Tenure Commision and they are supposed to make sure the locals are properly doing there job. We have filed a complaint with the Tenure Commision who also dismissed things in another case that should have been dealt with by them.

SO the courts want to be independent with no checks and balances and promise they will hold themselves accountable, but we see what that has allowed and we see how well they are holding themselves accountable.

It can be frustrating when no one working for the courts wants to follow the law or do there job, but we need to keep filing the paperwork to create the paper trail on each case to document what they have been doing. They can either respond properly and do their job then, or we can accumulate it all and when they are held accountable we will have the proof of all the cases they did not properly handle at that point. At this point they still have the option of doing their job, but the tipping point is coming where as enough of the public has dealt with them being corrupt and abusing there power, and realizing a third party will be needed, a third party that is independent of the courts, a third party that the people give the authority to, to hold the courts accountable for not following the law, for not respecting the people they are supposed to be serving, and for not doing the job they are paid to do. If you are not doing anything wrong and not causing harm to anyone else, you should not be anxious when you go to court or when you get pulled over by a police officer that gets paid to serve and protect you: that is a symptom of a corrupt system we all have to deal with at times, that gets paid by us to serve itself. This needs to be fixed The people in power are not fixing this: the people that are supposed to be being served need to...

The laws that have evolved over time to serve the system when they are supposed to be serving us, treat us like slaves. These also need to be fixed. IE, Many people can not afford to live off their current paycheck, but the law says the FOC can take 50-60% of your income for child support!? I am not sure which one is worse, the law that tells them what they can get away with, or the fact they often do not even follow the laws at times and in this example are known to illegally take even more than the 50-60% from your paycheck. Either way, both need to be fixed.

We have a recent example of a woman who was charged child support in the past, which was morally wrong and the courts knew it when they did it, but regardless is on the court record as an assumed debt. The FOC sent an order to her work place requesting they take over half of her paycheck for the child support. The FOC was contacted right away and said they would fix it. The Ionia FOC was contacted with plenty of time to fix this before the next paycheck, and yet out of a two week pay period that followed, she only got one full day of pay, the very last day of the pay period she worked. Do you think the Ionia FOC refunded this illegally taken money from this womans paycheck that she needed to pay bills and take care of 3 children full time with no child support or other benefits? Of course not.

The FOC was too busy separately targeting her husband at the same time with illegally held show cause hearings, when he is the one that stays home with and takes care of these 3 children full time for free with no benefits. They have been having to juggle bills and find other ways to ensure the children are provided for while the Ionia FOC goes manic charging both of them court fees, taking food out of childrens mouths to fund themselves.

When you have an assumed the debt, the court is legally required to determine that you were able to pay and unwilling, not that you were willing to pay but unable. The court can not legally put people in jail for being unable to pay an assumed debt, which is what everyone in Ionia knows tends to happen at FOC showcause hearings. On the record, the previous Ionia FOC Ref Miss Wierckz admitted the Ionia Foc is not motivated to do show cause hearings to help parents collect child support; they are motivated to do showcause hearings to collect court fees from the child support, out of childrens mouths, to fund themselves. Ionia FOC Ref Wierckz admitted to the local media that the Ionia FOC was behind on funding due to spending more than they had, and thats why they do show cause hearings in Ionia, threatening to put parents in jail for not paying enough court fees and then labeling those people as dead beat dads to justify putting people in jail and prison, for not paying enough added child support court fees to fund the FOC that is supposed to be doing whats in the best interest of the children involved.

When calculating how much child support a person can be charged, including at a showcause hearing, the court has rules they must follow to give the person a minimum amount of rights. These rules and laws do not give us much rights to begin with, ie they can take up to 60% of your paycheck for one support case, up to 50% for two or more: with the courts and laws giving us such little rights, we must enforce those we have, while working toward fixing the laws in place.

One set of rules the Ref/ Judge must follow in calculating how much child support they can charge you is contained within the 2025 Michigan Child Support Manual. You must know the rules they are required to follow, or they will push the boundaries and do things they are not allowed to do per their own rules. One of the biggest issues with govt corruption these days is that these people in positions of power are not held accountable by their supervisors, which means we the people must act as their check and balance when the people being paid to do it fail to do their job and in the meantime we the people are the ones being taken advantage of. Our children are the ones suffering from the court workers being corrupt, and not being held accountable for there corruption.

Ionia FOC Ref Shermak

Per the 2025 MI Child Support Formula Manual, the court is required to consider the effect having children in the home has on the parents ability to earn. Hence a parent that needs to stay home to provide care for a child, or children, is not able to leave the house to go get a job to pay the FOC Court fees that motivate Ionia County FOC to file show cause hearings and threaten otherwise good parents with jail time for not paying enough (FOC court fees) child support. If providing care for child(ren) prevents the parent from being able to leave the house to go get a job, the FOC Ref/ Judge can not tell that parent they could leave the house and go get a job and assume they are able to have this income available to pay the court fees/ full child support. Ensure you pay a monthly minimum/ consistent amount on the child support, but do not allow the Ionia courts to illegally bully you with threats of jail time when they are the ones doing illegal things, violating our rights, taking food out of our childrens mouths, all to fund themselves with these court fees they use to pay themselves with. If we spend more then we make we do not get to threaten parents with jail time, tell society they are dead beat dads to justify putting them in jail, and we surely do not take food out of childrens mouths so we can overspend our budget: the FOC and courts need to have these same moral standards.

We have a case of a stay at home dad who provides more than half time care for his 3 children with no child support or other assistance, so their mothers can go to work without having to worry about finding or paying for a babysitter. Ionia FOC gave him a show cause hearing on Dec 4, 2024, for not paying enough child support on a fourth child whose mother has refused to let him help provide care because she has used his child support money for years to pay 3rd party babysitters she found on facebook to raise and take care of their child. She drives past his house regularly to bring her fiances children to Carson City and Stanton, and literally had their son going to a local school to the dads house, with a local babysitter, without even telling the dad. As soon as the dad found out and asked if he could be there sons free babysitter she refused, and transferred there sons school. Despite driving past his house regularly to transport other children to their mothers for her fiance, she drives half way back to Howard City an hour away and says he has to drive there, half way to her house if he wants to see his son at all, even for 3 hour visits. Sometimes she says he has to drive all the way to Howard city, an hour away, if he wants to see his son. Because of business being slow and the fact the dad needs to get his daughter to school from his house, and provide care for these other 3 children out of his own pocket with no help, he has not had extra gas to drive half way, or now all the way, to Howard City to see his son now for a couple months despite her driving past his house regularly. What gives the court the right to allow one parent to treat the other parent like this? If a father is willing and able to provide care for the child and the mother chooses to pay a third party babysitter to raise the child instead, what gives the court to right to tell the father he basically has no rights and can not provide the direct care for his own son, but must pay the mothers child support used to pay babysitters instead? Or go to jail and be labeled a deadbeat dad to justify it!? In the end the only one that wins is the court, collecting there court fees from the mouths of children and making fathers pay child support/ court fees to support the system that tells them they have no rights? How do you define slave? How should the people define child abuse in a way that holds the court workers accountable and puts the court workers in jail before they put more parents in jail that are trying to take care of there children??

At the showcause Ref Shermak completely ignored the mans defense, and despite the fact this man has limited resources while staying home full time and trying to run a business from home to provide for three kids, allowing there mothers to go to work without having to worry about finding or paying for a babysitter, Ref Shermak told this man he needs to pay 100 and start making full payments every month on this child support to this fourth childs mother who has refused his offer for help in the past, drives past his house regularly but tells the guy he needs to drive half way back, or all the way, to Howard city to meet her if he wants to see his son. The man already explained to the ref why he could not leave the house to get another job, but her reply was that he could go get a part time job and make enough to pay the full child support amount. She completely ignored his defense and proved she did not care about the 3 kids he was taking care of for free, she only cared about collecting the FOC court fees out of these childrens mouths.

How can someone like this be put into a position such as ref of FOC where as they are allowed to make decisions that put children at risk solely to collect their court fees? The man has been paying child support every month for years, including the previous month to the showcause, and is only about $700 behind. He missed making a payment for a couple months, after years of paying every month just for the mother to take his money and pay a 3rd party babysitter to raise there son. This is not justification to file a show cause. Yet the Foc added more then $100 in Foc court fees to this mans financial burden, court fees that will be taken out of the child support when the mother of this child does get anything from it. If this mother were in need of this child support which would be the only justified reason for the FOC to pursue it, taking even more fees out of limited resources is also taking food out of this childs mouth. So the Foc by definition in this case is putting four children at risk of not having what they need, threatening to put a full time dad that takes care of 3 children for free in jail under the guise of him being a deadbeat dad, solely so the Ionia FOC can take court fees from his limited resources.

Clearly the FOC is abusing their power here, putting children at risk when they are supposed to be ruling in favor of the childs best interest, not taking there court fees out of childrens mouths and threatening to put good parents, such as this one that is needed to take care of 3 children and does it with no benefits or child support, in jail. This abuse of power by Ionia courts and Ionia FOC ref Shermak needs to end, and these satanic people need to be held accountable.

The Ionia FOC / Judge Schafer refused to dismiss this show cause, threatening this man with jail time when he is needed to provide care for three children he gets no benefits for at the time of this writing, to provide for, including homeschooling two of his autistic spectrum children. He only missed a couple months of payments after paying every month for years now while his son was raised by babysitters instead of either parent, and he was less than $700 behind before they started adding more fees.

The only reason FOC has any kind of legal authority is because they are supposed to be doing what is in the best interests of the children involved, not putting children at risk by threatening to put there parent in jail for barely being behind on child support for a mother that refuses to let him help or see his son more, she would rather pay a babysitter to raise him.

The courts now need to answer to the people: Is it more important for children to be taken care of, or for the FOC to take more court fees out of childrens mouths to fund themselves, as they are doing and have been getting away with? The Ionia FOC prioritizing there own court fee based funding taken from child support payments, is and has been harming the actual children involved. They are abusing there power to take court fees out of childrens mouths to fund themselves. This needs to be addressed and fixed: they are not being held accountable by anyone, and this is harming our children that need to be provided for and taken care of.

Resources/ dealing with Ionia FOC:

The official Ionia County website seems to have removed the FOC grievance form we have a right to use, since Ref Shermak took over, so for your use: Here is the FOC grievance form with instructions


Mi CS Formula Manual- updated for 2025 version- FOC is required to follow these rules

Requesting CS Modification/ Info

FOC CS Modification Motion/ Form

SUPPORT AND PARENTING TIME ENFORCEMENT ACT (EXCERPT) Act 295 of 1982 (Foc can only take 50-60% max of your paycheck)

Judges and FOC Referee

Holding them accountable

The Tenure Commission in Michigan serves the purpose of promoting public confidence in the courts. Judges and referees are expected to adhere to certain ethics guidelines contained within the Mi Court Rules (click/ link) such as being fair and respectful to both parties, ruling based on fact, etc. If you feel your experience with Ionia County courts did not meet the minimum standard expected of Judges and Refs in MI, feel free to review how to file a complaint. And follow through. If you are dealing with it, it is because the person before you let it go and they are still getting away with it.

Stop the cycle of corruption and abuse of power in Ionia County!

Judge Kreeger

At a Feb 2024 court date, the other party was caught lying, called perjury last we knew, several times, as normal. She gets caught lying everytime. She was not held accountable by Ionia Courts, as usual. Yet Judge Kreeger charged this man for contempt of court for speaking out of turn. So certain litigants are allowed to compulsively commit perjury, but if you dare speak out of turn and make the Judge feel like you are not respecting their authority, you will be held accountable? The woman was black and white caught lying, and Kreegers response was that it was only the mans interpretation of what a lie is. This is called gas lighting, a manipulation tactic used by abusers on there victims to convince them something unreal is true, leading to the victims doubting themselves and there own sense of reality over time.

The ironic part here is when the Judge, Kreeger in this case, kept interrupting this man, distracting his focus and ability to get to the point he was trying to make, stops him from talking mid sentence, telling him that he does not have time to read what he prepared to read so it would be focused and to the point, and then gets on him about not getting to the point that she interrupted him from making...

My children have been at risk for over a year because my ex wife leaves them unsupervised with their schizophrenic sister that is known to go in and out of psychosis, becomes violent when arguing and getting in fights with the angry voices in her head, and has a history of acting out violently in the real world. We got them phones for a safety line due to her exposing them to violence and other inappropriate things at most every house She has ever lived at with them, but the Judge said she can take their phones. Then Kreeger also said she can effectively sleep all day as long as she is in the same apartment, although it is known that her sister will become violent with her right there, and even has a history of assaulting her directly in the past. Yet she complained claiming I was texting my kids too much and that she might want to take a nap if she has a headache or something. So Kreeger said she is not in violation of the court order saying our children are not supposed to be left alone with the sister, as long as she is in the residence 'somewhere'. The kids can wake her up. Even though it's already on the court record she gets mad if woke up so no one wants to or does wake her up despite the fact the sister has threatened to kill their aunt with a knife in front of them since Judge Kreeger said she could take their phones and sleep all day.

Judge Kreeger was informed that since she told her that she could take their phones and sleep all day, that the schizophrenic sister had threatened to kill the kids Aunt while stabbing a knife in the air. Kreeger looked at the other party and asked the other party if it was true, and of course she said "no." The man asked the womans schizophrenic sister if it happened, in court in front of Judge Kreeger, the woman turned around to her sister and said, Do not answer that right in front of Judge Kreeger, on the court record, which was self admission it was true, Despite the fact the other party was caught lying several times already as always, without being held accountable, Judge Kreeger went on her claiming it had not happened and dismissed it. It didn't matter that Judge Kreeger was informed that CPS was not responding or doing anything about the threat to the kids safety. Kreeger used that on the record to justify not doing anything about it herself. We have been trying to get someone to talk to them for awhile. the man explained. We have made two separate reports to CPS central intake and they never reply or even go talk to our kids.

The casewoker Mike Ketchem said if they filed an affidavit he would help. So they filed an affidavit about the incident and others and the caseworker said that because of the way the Judge wrote the court order she is not in violation for her sister threatning to kill the childrens aunt in front of them with a knife she was stabbing in the air, and hence he would do nothing. He is supposed to be a mandated reporter and has been aware that CPS has not been responding to our complaints, or doing anything about it, and he has been made aware these autistic spectrum children are being exposed to these things and yet does nothing.

On the other hand, this man has never been caught lying, because he believes in telling the truth, and yet the Judge refuses to protect his children and just lets the other party water down the court order based on known to be lies and stories she wastes the courts time with that do not make sense, and refuses to let the man enforce the court order to protect his children.

My children do not lie and I do not lie, but the other party gets caught lying at every court date and yet the Judge just asks her if what our children say they are being exposed to is true, and Judge Kreeger dismisses it based on the other party, a known liar that never gets charged with perjury, lying about it. It just gets dismissed by Judge Kreeger. My children have been asking for help and Judge Kreeger will not let me help them.

Previous court date with Kreeger not letting a man protect his children

At one point we believed Judge Kreeger was the last one in Ionia county that was fair and based her rulings on fact, not bias and corruption as the other Judge and Ref Shermak are known to. Our last experience with Kreeger really shook this belief. As an example, my ex wife was caught lying in court claiming my new wife had physically assaulted her. When Kreeger asked her how she was physically assaulted by my wife, my ex was caught lying and changed her story to somehow my wife was just hostile and aggressive. Instead of being held accountable for lying in court (perjury) my ex wife was apparently rewarded by Kreeger with a condition saying that my wife, who had done nothing wrong, was not allowed at drop offs anymore due to my ex wifes claims, despite my ex wifes claims having been known lies- she literally got caught lying about it to Kreeger and instead of being held accountable for lying in court my ex wife was rewarded by Judge Kreeger for getting caught lying. This is when Judges need to be held accountable for abuse of power. We don't even have a choice, or a chance anymore, of getting a fair judge if none of them care about the law, being fair, or ruling based on fact.

No wonder they do not want you to record the court room, and force you to pay the transcriptionist to type there version of what happened in court instead of allowing you to record: they also refuse to provide the public with there version of the court recording. There is no legit reason for this and clearly it serves the purpose of being corrupt and covering up the corruption as the rule of there policy.

The people staffing these courts seem to be forgetting these are public court rooms that are supposed to be serving the public: there power comes from the consent of the people. They are not dictators that rule over the people and get to pick sides. They are supposed to rule based on fact.

My ex wife has been caught filing these false reports to the police, in other Ionia court rooms, to cps after already being caught telling the same lie to the police, and no one in Ionia holds her accountable. It has been exposed to Judge Kreeger who caught her lying in court and was told she does it almost, if not every time, we go to court, yet Kreeger basically said, that is your interpretation of what a lie is as she catches her lying again. It has been exposed to previous Ref Wierckz with police reports available proving that she had already been caught lying to the police claiming I had assaulted her when she used to live with me, and Wierckz refused to accept the police report evidence or put it on the record and yet wrote a court order condition at that time saying that my wife was not allowed to have any contact with my children. So my ex wife was caught filing a false dv/ assault report to the police, got caught by the police, I had the police report, she lies about it to the foc ref, and a condition was written that became a court order signed by the Judge based on her being rewarded for getting caught/ proven lying again. This was never properly justified on the court record, it was the result of my ex wife staying behind and talking to the ref after court was over. No facts were ever put on the record to prove that any reason for my wife to not have contact with my children existed and yet this conditin remained for years. Scahfer refused to answer the complaint about this condition being illegally written and never being justified on the court record. Schafer claimed it was on his desk for review a year or so after it was filed, and years later, to this day, he has still never replied to or properly answered this complaint.

Apparently she is free to keep lying and doesn't matter if she gets caught cause as soon as someone she accuses can not prove they did not do anything wrong they go to jail. This gives her unlimted free chances to lie and make up known to be false accusations.

There are real victims that need to be protected and this is a slap in the face to all of them. This is not how the system is designed, it is a symptom of supposed victims being catered to by biased Judges and refs, and if someone claims to be a vicitm in Ionia aparently they let them have free chances to get caught lying about things until the person being accused can't prove they are innocent anymore. This is called perjury in court and is called 'filing a false report to a govt officer' when they lie to a police officer and file a false police report.

Regardless, and as unfortunate as it is, this means that both Judges and the ref in Ionia have shown themselves to be corrupt and incapable of doing there jobs, ie not ruling based on fact. Kreeger will be getting another chance soon to fix what she allowed before and hopefully she does better as I have always had more faith in her then any other judge in Ionia.

FOC Caseworker

Michael Ketchum

Foc case worker Mike is known to fail to investigate, and instead bias his decisions in favor of speculation, false claims and false accusations made by one party. As one recent example, a person claimed to Mike that she had been physically assaulted by the other party. In court Mike witnessed this lady get caught lying about this when the judge asked her how she was physically assaulted and she changed her story to claim that "she had been hostile and aggressive," instead of her original claim she had been physically assaulted. This is called getting caught lying in court, aka perjury. After this Foc Mike continued to believe the known to be lying party, continuing to bias against the known to be telling the truth party. Mike literally concluded his next affidavit based investgation on what the known to be liar had told him instead of getting the proof or believing the party that had not been lying the whole time.

FOC caseworker Mike is currently abusing his authority to back up an old client of the FOC Ref (when Shermak was a divorce lawyer) at the expense of the safety of my children. Shermak was the divorce lawyer for this mother and hence is not supposed to be involved with the case, per MI Bar ethics standards. But through foc caseworker Mike she is effectively denying the other parent acccess to the courts. Shermak is allowed to deal with other cases of mne despite having represented my ex wife in our divorce, and she literally dismissed all my testomeony claiming it did not exist, refused to help my daughter, putting her at greater risk, and Schafer allowed her to get away with it at de novo review (appeal) saying she did ok in his opinion despite the record proving Shermak had dismissed all my testimony for no reason, and refused to consider anything I said unless the other party requested it.

Back to the previous case, the mother was in violation of a court order to protect the children and is not supposed to be leaving them alone with her schizophrenic sister whom is unstabe and has a history of violently acting act. On being questioned three times in court the schizophrenic sister admitted she did not know if she would ever snap on and hurt the children when they are left alone with her. The mother has been leaving these children alone with the schizoprhenic sister regularly anyway, and just lies about it.

Kreeger ended up modifying the court order to say as long as the mother was present in the apartment it didn't matter what she was doing, ie sleeping. The mother is known to sleep in for hours and this leaves the autistic spectrum children alone with the schizophrenic sister int he morning. Since Kreeger modified this condition the sister has pooped all over the toilet seat leaving the kids to not have a toilet to use and they had to hold there pee. She also had a knife she was stabbign in the air and threatening to kill there aunt with. An affidavit was filed with caseworker Mike regarding this incident and he dismissed it saying it was not a violation of the court order that said it was ok as long as the mother was present in the apartment. At what point did it become ok for someone to threaten to kill someones aunt with a knife in front of an autistic spectrum child because there mother was presnt in the apartment, just sleeping?

The father out of concern asked the mother to assure him she would stop leaving the kids alone with the schizophrenic sister and the mother lied to him instead of even trying to reassure him. So out of concern the father filed for a court date to address this as she has been doing it compulsively and refused to stop. He kept his kids from her pending the court date, and notified the foc worker Mike what was going on. The father filed for his court date on the 11th. FOC Mike filed a petition on the 14th to have the children removed and kept from the father, along with a show cause instead, without even asking the father to return the kids and without even investigating to see if the kids would be safe being (forcefully) returned to the mother that was not properly supervising or protecting the children. The foc waited until the next day, on the 15th to process the fathers motion, as if to make it look like he had not properly filed with the courts. FOC Mike admitted to the father he based his decision on the mother claiming she was not violating. "Because she said so." When he was confronted about why he would put kids at risk based on someone telling him that they were not doing anything wrong when he has already been informed she has been, his response was, "because I believed her." This mother is known to lie and present false testimony to the courts. Every time they have a pending case she lies to the foc workers and everytime at court the father is able to prove she was not valid and he gets the case dismissed. The mother has denied him parenting time several times, and the father was never assisted by the foc. Yet in court everytime the father has proven she was wrong and had no valid reason for keeping his kids from him again. This is the first time he has ever denied her parenting time after having to go through the hassle of two court dates, and yet the Foc is not allowing him to protect his children or have the order enforced.

FOC worker Mike is abusing his power, apparently for the known to be corrupt Foc Ref Shermak, to back up one of her old clients that she used to represent against the father during there divorce proceeding. The mother has been caught lying over and over again in the Foc court, including when she got caught lying to the police about the father assaulting her when he let her move into his house temporarily so the mother of his children would not be homeless. The police determined the mother was lying about the assault and documented it in there report. A recording was available that proved the man was not guilty but the police said they didn't need it: they knew she was lying based on her report alone. The father had the report in his hand in court when the mother committed perjury in court trying to lie and claim the man had assaulted her again to the Foc, after she had already been caught lying by the police. The father has never been proven to be lying about anything.

Ionia CPS

Arianne Slaughter

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Arianne has been caught knowingly and purposely lying in FOC court as a representative of Ionia County CPS, trying to take custody of someone's children. Before Arianne went to court, she got in trouble with her supervision for blocking information to another CPS worker/ jurisidction where as a case she was trying to form and was using for justification to target a father had already been cleared and dismissed. She was aware of this and had blocked another CPS jurisdiciton from being informed, and even got in trouble before the court date for blocking contact info to the specific state police contact so they could not confirm themselves with the state police that this case had already been cleared. She got in trouble when she went to the extent of refusing to provide the contact info for the other CPS jurisdiction to confirm it had been cleared when Arianne was refusing to provide this confirmation herself.

Arianne was supposed to close the case and move on at this point but instead of admit that the case had been cleared and closed, she lied to Ionia FOC and claimed it was still active. Her supervisors got involved and told her to stop blocking the investigation and conclusion of it being cleared already, before she continued her lie to FOC. This Lansing CPS worker was able to confirm that the case had been cleared after she was finally able to get the MSP contact info, and she contacted Ionia FOC who was still denying this father parenting time with his children based on the Ionia CPS worker telling them it was still an active case. The Ionia FOC who was being lied to by Arianne about the status refused to acknowledge the case had been cleared as Arianne was there local (Ionia) CPS worker and she was telling them that it had not been cleared. Technically jurisdiction for the case was out of Lansing but Ionia Arianne tried to take over and did what she could to keep it going despite this. Ionia FOC refused to accept the truth despite it having been confirmed to them from Ingaham County CPS, and instead based there actions on what Ionia CPS Arianne told them. They told Lansing cps they would wait for Ionia CPS worker Arianne to tell them it was cleared, and of course Arianne lied in court claiming it was still an active case.

Ionia FOC had the proof that the case had already been cleared, provided by the Lansing CPS worker whom had jurisdiction over the case, along with proof provided by the father involved whose children had been kept from him based on Arianne's lies. Despite having already been in "trouble" (how did they really even hold her accountable the first time she got caught lying, when she turned around and did it again under oath in court?) with supervision for covering up the status of the case already having been cleared. Despite already having been confronted by her section manager about blocking that the case had been cleared to other CPS jurisdictions, Ionia CPS Arianne maintained her lie in FOC court. She was never held acountabe for any of this. A known to be good father almost lost custody of his children based on Arianne's lies that were already proven to be lies before the court date, that she had already had been confronted by her supervision about and was told to stop interfering with the investigation being cleared.

Arianne's supervisor, Stacey Simon, at the Ionia County CPS knew that she had been caught lying in court as a representative of Ionia County CPS, trying to take custody of someone's children from them with no legit justification for doing so. Her supervisor asserted that she would be held accountable for it, but refused to even confirm how she would be held accountable. No apology, or any other kind of consideration was given for this by Arianne, her supervisor, Ionia County CPS, or Ionia FOC who were all aware and knew that Arianne had been literally caught lying in court, while sworn in, trying to take custody of someone's children from them.

Last we knew, Arianne was still working for Ionia County CPS abusing her authority and putting other people's children at risk, due to her biasing against and targeting parents with her own agenda at the children's expense. Ionia CPS Arianne is one of several Ionia County CPS workers that are known to put there own agenda above protecting the children they are supposed to be using there authority to protect.

Update: we have been informed that Arianne Slaughter may in fact be working for the Ionia Schools now, at Emerson Elementary, as a social worker. This must be her piunishment for getting caught lying in court, pushing a corrupt agenda to take children out of there stable home environment and take custody of them for no reason, and proving she was incapable of being moral as she got caught commiting perjury as an Ionia CPS worker.

Ionia CPS

Ashley Gesselman

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Ashley, while working as an Ionia County CPS worker has knowingly and intentionally abused her authority to target certain people, including at the expense of putting their children she is supposed to be protecting at risk. She targeted one families residence and said it was not ok for the parent to have children there. Ashley literally told the other parents of this person's children to deny parenting time unless this parent could prove they were staying somewhere other then their own home.

This parent was told they had to bring their children out of their home in the middle of a snow storm with white out conditions, with the state advising everyone to stay off the road. Yet Ashley Gesselman of Ionia County CPS demanded this parent leave their house and bring their children somewhere else immediately, abusing her assumed and threatening authority as an Ionia County CPS worker to put these children at risk when the state was literally telling everyone to stay off the roads. The house being an issue was denied by Ioniia CPS supervision, as it was biased targeting being done against a father without proper justification for the hoousing having any real issues.

Ashley Gesselman's abuse of power and power tripping against the safety of children got so far to where this parent was being denied parenting time by the other parents based on what CPS Ashley was telling the other parents to do. Dennying parenting time to a parent that is contrary to what a court order says is supposed to be that parents parenting time, requires a court date for FOC to determine if it is justified. CPS Ashley's issue with the house had already been denied by Ionia County CPS. CPS supervision already agreed it was not valid and told the worker to stop pursuing it. However, Ashly was still telling the other parents to deny this parent the ability to see their children based on it. When the case went to court, one of the parents who had been coached by Ashley Gesselman to deny the other parent parenting time was unable to come up with one specific valid reason of anykind of why she had denied him parenting time as there was never any true justification.

So it was proven in court that there was no reason this parent was ever denied parenting time based on that parent's housing, and yet Ashley Gesslman forced this parent to get hotels anytime he had his children with him, despite the fact he had a house and property that he owned and lived at with his family: Wife and children. Being that the parent being denied parenting time per Ashley Gesselman's abuse of power had 50/50 custody/ parenting time of some of his children, this parent was being forced to rent hotels for about half of the days in the week just to be able to have his children. This caused alot of issues for a dad trying to be a parent when he is being told that he has to live out of hotel rooms with his children despite being a property/ house owner. His children were confused about why their mother's were telling them dad's house was not ok any more for them to be at. Nothing had changed about dad's house, but the children's life's suddenly felt less stable and secure while they were being made to live on the road and out of hotel rooms, as if they were homeless, despite nothing being wrong with dad's house or property.

When the supervisor told this CPS worker their case was being denied they continued the targeted harassment until the case went to court. This parent missed alot of parenting time and it disrupted the children's sense of where their home was.

Yet again, no apology or considerations of any kind were provided by Ionia County CPS, by Ionia County FOC, etc. No make up parenting time was even provided as the parents were following what the Ionia County CPS worker Ashley Gesselman was telling them to do, even though it was proven in that same court, and her supervisors had already dismissed the case to her. They all acted like they never did anything wrong despite the proof once again being very clear.

Ionia FOC/ Director

Rebecca A. Shermak

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Known to be a biased/ corrupt power abuser.

>We have been receiving complaints from members of the community about the new Ref Shermak being baised against men and abusing her authority to favor woman. Ms Shermak's corrupt behavior has been described as "disgusting" by others. Members of our own team have experienced it ourselves and Ms Shermak is the definition of the reason that people lose confidance in there local courts, esp when her supervisors fail to hold her accountable for her corruption. It is disgusting to see people trusted by the community, given positions of power and authority, and yet fail to do there job and instead abuse there authority to power trip on the people trying to have trust in them instead.

A complaint was recently processed by Judge Schafer against Ms Shermak, Re: her misconduct, her ethics violations, and Mr Schafer's failure to supervise and hold her accountable in a de novo review hearing, and in general. Schafer again comopletely failed to hold her accountable despite the proof being beyond a reasonable doubt.

Examples of Her Recent Behavior/ Known Corruption

As a referee Ms Shermack is to be held to the same standards as a Judge. She has so many known ethics violations that there is no way an unbiased 3rd party representing these ethics violations enforcement would allow her to continue practicing law in any manner. As her local supervisor, Judge Schafer has refused to hold her accountable for any of it so far, despite being given a second chance to do so with additional evidence having been presented to him.

  • After hearing all the evidence/ testimony by a father, she summarized the testimony claiming effectively it did not exist and used her authority to wipe it from the record, even after it was presented a second time when she first claimed it was not presented by her saying nothing had been presented. Based on nothing having been presented, she dismissed the case despite the fact several factors that could not be dismissed were present, ie the mother was in violation for transferring their daughters school after beng told by FOC they were suppposed to go to court without the father's consent due to a 50/ 50 custody situation. The court date was to address this issue of the mother illegally transferring there daughter and this was not taken care of, along with everything else that was supsoed to be taken care of.
  • After dealing with Ms Shermacks abuse of power, a father filed a complaint including proof that Ms Shermack represented his ex wife in there divorce proceeding. The State of Mi Bar Ethics is very clear that a ref is not to act as a ref to anyone whom they have this conflict with, where as they represented someone against them in the past. This is a clear ethics violation that is not negotiable, yet Ms Shermack abused her authority and dismissed all the complaints as if she did not have to follow the rules or laws set in place for someone in her position. To practice law, someone has to be licensed on this state bar whose ethics she violated, and dismissed correcting her violations when they were presented to her a second time via a formal complaint about her misconduct. Her and Mr Schafer minimized this and said they would only allow this rule to apply if/ when the court date was the same party she represented, despite the fact she already clearly showed bias against this man and was unabe to do her job, effectively denying this man access to the courts.
  • Ms Shermack is not supposed to see any cases as a Ref against men whom she represented the female counterpart as a lawyer against them while working for legal aid as a free victim lawyer This complaint was filed to her as a direct ethics violation, along with other ethics violations. Her formal response was that she could not seem to understand what the complaint said even though it was all written in clear, easy to understand language with clear headings, summarization, etc, and typed/ printed. Also in the compaint was proof in the form of a legal document with Ms Shermack's name written as the guy's ex wife's lawyer. I'm not sure what part Ms Shermack ws unable to understand but it was clearly written in a manner that could not be misunderstood, verified by our team.
  • Ms Shermack is known to act toward men in an antagonistic manner usually reserved for the woman's defense lawyer, not behvaior that a neutral judge is supposed to display. IE, from the start of the proceeding she jumped on a guy for recording the court room telling him it was illegal. When the man asserted he would comply with her request but that he knew for a fact it was not illegal as he had been informed by the previous ref that it was perfectly permissible and he had always been allowed to openly record in the court room without permission. She refused to provide any kind of explanation, giving everyone in the court room that knew it had always been permitted to believe that she was abusing her power and outright lying in an attempt to bully the man into knowing that she was going to be biased and abuse her authority against him through the rest of the proceeding. This was intentional to create antagonism and throw off the mans focus. She openly and clearly abused her authority to intimidate and throw off this mans focus.
  • Miss Shermcak clearly acted in a manner knowing she would not be held accountable by her supervision. When these cases of misconduct were brought to her supervisor Judge Schafer, he in fact failed to hold her accountable via the de novo hearing process. He ialso failed to hold her accountable when replying to a specific complaint filed to him regarding Ms Shermack's conduct, along with his failure to hold her accountable as her supervisor during the de novo proceeding. This was twice that her misconduct was presented to him in detail that he failed to hold her accountable.

After previous Ref Wierckz many years with the Ionia FOC as Director/ Ref, she quickly left her job for other endeavors, and was somehow replaced by Ms Shermack. We don't know how Ms Shermack got this job as her behavior so far has shown she is not mentally capable of doing the job, or of maintaning a neutral position from the start until the facts are made available and actually basing her decisions on the facts. She is at a loss for leadership skills and seems to have an inability to demonstrate any leadership other then a top down approach expecting people to blindly comply with her new found authority.

Shermack is better known for her time as a free victim lawyer for woman victims of men that she represented for free via her position with legal aid. She has already been exposed for corruption and abusing her authority, specifically against men. She does not have the mental capacity, caringness, tact, or will to properly do her job. It is clear that in the middle of labor shortages, when Wierckz abruptly left she was hired to do a job they probably didn't have anyone else to do. This means it may be harder to get her supervisors to admit she needs to be replaced even if they knew she should not have been hired for this position to begin with.

Regardless, Ms Shermack has already demonstrated she can not properly do this job and in fact is not really even trying. Outside investigators may need to be brought in to deal with her and other situations to get some momentum going. As with many corrupt govt workers in Ionia County, it is believed that she has likely done some favors for her supervisor that have made them look the other way at times. Including when she was first hired.

Ionia County Circuit Court, Chief Judge

Judge Schafer

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With all the known corruption issues in Ionia County it becomes self evident over time that someone "at the top" is ok with the corruption and allowing it to occur. They woud be aware over time, and have the option to stop it with there supervisory authority...

Mr Ronald Schafer has a long history with the Ionia County Courts. Previous to being the Chief Judge, he was the Head Prosecutor for Ionia County. Whether or not this biases his perspective as a Judge that is supposed to be neutral, is questionable. If so he would likely be seen to bias in favor of government employees, and against people's rights as individuals. The prosecutor mindset is one where as the person being accused is guilty and this needs to be proven to the courts so they can be held accountable.

He has been known to say ("rule") that biased and corrupt behavior, including ethics violations/ behavior by the new FOC Director/ Ref Shermack was perfectly ok. He denied a de novo (request for appeal) against Ref Shermak's behavior when she completely ignored the man's testimony and all the facts were in favor of what the guy was asking for, fully supporting his request. The woman in court was in violation of the court order/ FOC policies as well, and was never held accountable for anything, despite her already beingin contempt of court for previous violations of court order that she had no justification for, self admittedly. Anything the man asked for, Ref Shermak refused, unless the woman agreed with it. She was very clear and open about this.

Mr Schafer also denied a complaint against Ref Shermak recently, regarding her biased behavior toward a man and in favor of a woman. Ref Shermak purposely antagonized the man in the court room to throw off his focus as if she were the woman's defense lawyer (she used to be a free victim lawyer representing woman that claimed to be victims of men for free). Ref Shermak literally dismissed everything the man said and went with anything the woman said.

As another example, Mr Schafer has been known to kick someone's husband out of the court room during her jury trial, knowing that the girl needed her husband for support during the trial when her court appointed lawyer failed to her job and she was having to do the jury trial on her own. The court allowed the victim to hang out with all the jurors in the court room before the trial started, that the girl lost after the Judge kicked her husband/ main support out of the court room for no reason after the girl's previous court appointed lawyer that she had to fire (Larry Lewis), whispered something in Schafer's ears. Schafer refused to provide any reason or justification for doing this, and it was decided off the court record based on a known to be corrupt court appointed lawyer named Larry Lewis whispered something in his ear. This indicates that Judge Schafer allowed the girl's fired court appointed lawyer who was already caught trying to undermine her and her trial, to tell him something that led to him immediately telling her husband/ support to leave the court room based on secrets whispered in his ear, for no provided reason at all. Scahfer failed to respond to do this in a formal complaint issued to him, only asserting that the man was allowed to testify at the trial at one point as his indirect response to it as if this made up for him kicking the man out of the court room fo rno reason.

Ronald Schafer has also been quoted as saying he has never allowed anyone to record his court room. In a day and age where government corruption has hit such high levels, espcially in Ionia County, any government authority that would use their publicly granted authority to not allow anyone to record the proceeding is definitely doing so at the expense of public trust. Why should any government official be allowed to not be held accountable?

The fact that any government official would be allowed to say they do not want to be recorded, much less at a public proceeding, is not ok. Who would make a law that says any public official that is supposed to be serving us and needs to be held accountable, can have the option to say they do not want to be recorded? This is clearly erring in favor of big government and allowing government corruption. The govt is supposed to be serving the people, not themselves.

This is not allowing for accountability to take place. Judge Schafer's response to this is that you can request a transcript to be prepared by his court's transcriptionist. This will likely require more then $100 to be paid to the courts for the transcription that is typed out and prepared by their staff. When the recording the transcript was made from was requested with the transcript, that was not available to us, the people they are supposed to be serving. So you are not allowed to record the court proceeding, and they refused the copy of the recording they have, but they will provide a typed out version to you at excessive cost: apparently in there own words since you're not allowed to have a copy of any actual recordings. Unless they say you can. And Judge Schafer "never has".

Ionia County Sheriff Dept

Ionia County Deputy Josh Vroon

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Ionia County Deputy Josh Vroon pulled a citizen over for not coming to a complete stop when he was going from a parking lot to a road. Most people have never heard of this newer law, but even if there is no stop sign that is what you're expected to do.

Anyone, including the police, would know that this is very unknown. So when Ionia Deputy Josh Vroon pulled this guy over, he should have been ready to explain to this guy why he pulled him over. You would think an explanation and warning so the person was aware of the law would be appropriate. Deputy Vroon was literally shining a spot light on this guy while he was following him, which obviously would blind someone and make them likely to crash.

Instead of trying to serve the public and explaining when he pulled this man over, Deputy Vroon demanded this guy get out of his work van. When this guy dared ask Dep Vroon why he needed to get out of his vehicle, when it would already not be clear why he was pulling him over, Dep Vroon acted like this guy had no rights and he was to do what he was told.

In his report, Deputy Vroon says he "commanded" this guy to get out of his vehicle and he did not comply. Commanded? Are Ionia County Deputies military commandoes with the right to "command" us as dictators, and we have no rights these days? No, they're supposed to be serving and protecting us.

The man went ahead and got out of his vehicle, and Deputy Vroon literally threw him on the road as if the man had attacked him. The man presented no threat and this deputy literally threw the man on the road with cars passing by around him. For daring to ask the deputy why he was "commanding" him to get out of his vehicle? Of course, rather then admit he did anything wrong, the deputy literally wrote this guy a resisting and obstructing charge as if the man had done something wrong to him as a deputy.

So this Deputy Vroon of Ionia County Sherriff Dept is being paid by us the people to drive a cop car around shining a spot light on us as we try to drive in the dark, pull us over for laws most people have never heard of, command us to do things for no reason that make no sense, and when we ask what's going on after he exhibits these behaviors and we dare try to ask him what's going on, he thinks it's ok to throw us on the road with cars passing by. And of course don't forget that after he puts us at risk for crashing by blinding us while trying to drive and throws us on the road in the way of other cars going by on the road, that if we dare ask him what's going on in the middle of this before immediately following his commands to get out of the car, he writes an assault charge agaisnt us as if we are the ones acting erratically and putting other people at risk? We have a right to know why we are being asked to do anything, and if any law says different it needs to be changed now! Deputies like this that power trip and abuse their power prove why. And then throw us on the road with cars passing by because we didn't follow his command fast enough?? You can literally sees cars driving around this man on the road after Deputy Vroon threw him on the road where other cars were driving.

Then instead of admit he did something wrong, this deputy literally wrote the person that he just assaulted and threw on the road with cars driving by, an assault charge, as if this guy that he was commanding had done something wrong?!

First off, no govt worker/ civil servant that is supposed to be working for us has the right to "command" us to do anything. If someone wrote a law that says they can act like this, that's called dictatorship. Even if the law is/ was written, this would mean the cop was agreeing and promoting a dictatorship. This kind of law would not exist in the free country we are supposed to be living in. This kind of law would not be used and abused by any officer of the law in this situaiton that believed that people had rights.

At this point, this Deputy should have resigned and if not been fired by the Ionia County Sherriff dept and held criminally liable. Unless they are promoting a dictatorship in Ionia County where as the people have no rights, it's ok for cops to blind us with spot lights, command us to do things that make no sense and offer no explanations, and throw us on the road with cars driving by... no person that acts like this can be trusted with a gun, a badge, or should be getting paid by the people he treats like this.

The problem is that sociopaths like Dep Vroon go get the badge and think it means they can do this kind of thing. Clearly their supervisors had the opinion it was ok, or they would have known before hand they would be held liable for this kind of behavior before they did it. This is yet another case that proves Ionia County govt employees are not being held accountable by their supervisors. These kind of people need to be in prison, not being paid to drive cop cars around targeting and harassing people and threatening their lives because they dared ask why they're being "commanded" to do things that don't make sense by people that are acting erratic and unpredictable but somehow got the job with the badge. This is not OK.

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Why Ionia County Leadership?

Most in Ionia County know of the local corruption...

...as any area could have unknowingly allowed to seep in. We have government officials and agencies for a purpose, to serve the people. We prefer to give those working these positions the benefit of the doubt, that these people are doing what they believe they should be doing to best serve the people of the community they are working for.

This is not always the case unfortunately. Those that are supposed to be serving us but are instead abusing there positions of power and assumed authority and not doing what they are supposed to be doing, need to be held accountable; and legally removed from office if needed. If this position needs to exist, it needs to be staffed by a person that believes in serving the people, not themselves, and they need to be doing so with good intent.

At Ionia County Leadership .org, we provide a unified leadership for the people. The people of Ionia County need to be able to know who is serving them well, and who is abusing there power so we can get together and clean up local corruption with a unified approach that is more effective then the corruption we face that undermines our otherwise great community everyday.

If you personally know of corrupt officials, or have had to deal with corruption yourself, we need to know so we can look into it and see how it can best be dealt with. We would need the ability to prove what you are claiming, as much evidence as you can attain. Official reports, phone recordings, video recordings, audio recordings, transcripts foia requests, etc, can be forwarded to us and added to your complaint file to be used in the pursuit of justice and freedom from corruption. A file will be created for each person informing us of corruption issues, and a file will be created for each known to be corrupt public official.

We will add our various sources of information to each corrupt official's file as we investigate and determine how to best deal with each unique situation. Some civil servants may get a warning and a second chance at serving us better, and other's may need to be held accountable and removed from office sooner, if it seems there corruption is too deep.

Keep in mind, the only power civil servants have is by consent of the people they are supposed to be serving. When our civil servants no longer serve the people, the people no longer consent to there power and they no longer have any: they are merely waiting to be removed from there assumed position of power. To carry this out effectively we must unify with common leadership.

We will take back this power that is rightfully ours.
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