 Secretary Johnson, 15-year-old heart recipient Ryan Kanneth of Lapeer and 13-year-old heart recipient Izabel Wiegand of Lake Orion encourage you to join Michigan's organ donor registry at michigan.gov/organdonation. Below: Lashanda Ross of Saginaw, who is on the transplant waiting list, tells her story.
Citing the addition of nearly 3 million people to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry since 2011, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson held her final Donate Life Day event and thanked staff and volunteers who have expanded the registry.
Johnson joined partners Gift of Life Michigan and Eversight at Hurley Medical Center in Flint on April 11 to celebrate Donate Life Month. (Watch video)
 “When I took office in 2011, only 27 percent of Michigan adults had signed up on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry, and now that number is at 63 percent,” Johnson said. “Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Secretary of State staff, volunteers and partners, we have come a long way in improving the lives of Michigan residents in need of a life-saving or life-changing transplant.”
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Johnson made huge changes in the way the Secretary of State’s Office approached organ donation when she took office in 2011. Working with her partners like Gift of Life Michigan and Eversight, she created an advisory task force, put organ donor reminders on widely-used forms, enlisted social media and directed employees to ask customers if they wanted to sign up, doubling the percentage of names on the list. About 85 percent of people who sign up do so through the Secretary of State’s Office.
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The owner of an Osceola County used-vehicle dealership and her husband have each been charged with multiple criminal charges as a result of a Secretary of State investigation that was prompted by consumer complaints, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced on April 12.
 Kimberly Ann Leonard, the owner of Bullet Proof Sales, Inc., 19952 Michigan Highway 115 in Marion, and her husband Richard Boyd Leonard Jr. were arraigned on March 8 in Osceola County’s 77th District Court on felony charges of conducting a criminal enterprise and larceny by conversion of more than $1,000 but less than $20,000. They were also charged with six misdemeanor counts of failure to endorse and deliver a certificate of title.
Johnson suspended the dealership on Aug. 18, 2017 after Secretary of State regulatory staff attempted records inspections at the dealership on three occasions in June and July 2017 and found the facility to be empty. The inspections were in response to complaints by several consumers who had purchased vehicles at Bullet Proof Sales and had not received titles.
Investigations by Secretary of State agents and law enforcement officers revealed the Leonards had allegedly purchased vehicles at an auction and taken delivery of them, but failed to pay for them. The auction held the titles awaiting payment and the Leonards proceeded to sell the vehicles to consumers without titles in violation of Michigan law.
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