Michigan — The Attorney General's Diocesan Reports (2022–2026)

The Michigan Attorney General's six per-diocese clergy-abuse investigation reports, October 2022 to June 2026: allegation posture only, with the Department's no-determination disclaimer printed in full, and the Detroit report not yet released.

Issuing office

Office of the Michigan Attorney General (Dana Nessel)

Reports

Six per-diocese investigation reports: Marquette, Gaylord, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Saginaw

Released

October 2022 – June 2026

Scope

Six of Michigan's seven Catholic dioceses — the Detroit report has not been released

Posture

Allegation posture only — the Department makes no credibility determination (disclaimer printed verbatim on this page)

Michigan took a different approach from a single statewide report. The Department of Attorney General investigated the state’s Catholic dioceses one at a time and released a separate report for each — six reports between October 2022 and June 2026, covering six of Michigan’s seven dioceses. Each report is a compilation built from the same kinds of material: tipline reports, victim interviews, police investigations, open-source media, and paper and electronic documents seized from the diocese, together with reports of allegations disclosed by the diocese itself.

That per-diocese model shapes everything about how this archive may use the Michigan material, beginning with the Department’s own disclaimer.

The disclaimer, verbatim

Every Michigan report carries the same front-matter notice. In the Saginaw report’s wording, it reads:

“This report is for informational purposes only. It is a compilation of excerpts from the information obtained from the tipline, victim interviews, police investigations, open-source media, paper documents seized from the Diocese … and the electronic documents found on the diocesan computers, as well as reports of allegations disclosed by the Diocese.”

And each report’s summary states, verbatim:

“The allegations are summarized here, and their inclusion does not reflect a determination by the Department that the allegations are credible or otherwise substantiated nor indicative of a crime”

The standing rule for this site follows directly from those words: no Michigan name or figure on this site is ever labeled “credibly accused.” Inclusion in a Michigan report means an allegation was summarized there — nothing more, and nothing less.

The six reports

The table below gives each report’s own stated total, exactly as the Attorney General states it. These are the reports’ totals, not this archive’s counts.

Statewide figures are quoted on this site only as the Attorney General states them: the Department’s releases state that it has issued criminal charges in 11 cases from throughout the state and secured convictions in nine cases, “delivering justice for 38 survivors.” This archive never sums the six reports into a Michigan total, and no summed figure is presented here as an Attorney General count.

Detroit: not released

As of October 25, 2026, six of the seven diocesan reports exist. The Saginaw report, released June 25, 2026, was the sixth of seven. The Department has said Detroit documents were still being reviewed, with issuance of the Detroit report intended in 2026.

Until that report is released and read, this archive builds nothing for Detroit from this material and counts nothing for Detroit. Detroit is a watch item, not a gap to be filled from any other source.

In this archive

Michigan names enter the Directory only as a separately labeled Attorney-General-allegation layer. Every Michigan entry carries the posture “Named in MI AG report (allegation; AG makes no credibility determination)” at Tier 2. The layer is minors-only: allegations relating only to adults are excluded, as the fact sheet for these reports documents entry by entry. Michigan entries are never merged into, or displayed under, any “credibly accused” class.

For one diocese, that layer is also the only official roster there is. Grand Rapids publishes no diocesan list, so for Grand Rapids the Attorney General’s report is the only official roster — carried here under the allegation posture above, with the Department’s disclaimer governing every entry.

Sources

The six reports, from the Michigan Department of Attorney General (michigan.gov/ag):

• Marquette: michigan.gov/ag
• Gaylord: michigan.gov/ag
• Kalamazoo: michigan.gov/ag
• Lansing: michigan.gov/ag
• Grand Rapids: michigan.gov/ag
• Saginaw: michigan.gov/ag