LANSING – Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered departments to take better care of personal information, creating the Information Privacy Protection Council to oversee those efforts. She made the Parole Board, eventually, smaller and the Great Lakes Wind Council larger.
The IPPC (Executive Order ), created in the Department of Information Technology and led by the chief privacy officer, will advise the governor and other departments on privacy issues and on the best practices for complying with state and federal information privacy laws.
The order calls for each department to designate an information privacy officer to serve on the council.
Granholm, earlier this year had increased the parole board to 15 members to aid with her efforts to expedite paroles as a way to cut the Department of Corrections budget. But in EO , she drops the board back down to 10 members by December 1, 2015.
Liz Boyd, Granholm’s spokesperson, said the goal of the change is to have the expanded board’s work done within a set timeframe.
The order calls for Granholm’s successor to stop filling vacancies in the board beginning September 30, 2012 to meet the new goal size for the board.
Granholm expanded the Great Lakes Wind Council, adding two more general public members and bringing the board to 23 members (EO ).
She also Friday re-abolished the Campground Public Health Advisory Board (EO and EO ). The new order moves the board’s powers to the Department of Environmental Quality, where the earlier order had put them in the Department of Community Health.
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