Adopt-A-Road program<\/a> asks volunteers to pick up litter along a stretch of roadway during two of three scheduled cleanup periods a year. In return, the commission places road signs at both ends of a designated section to recognize volunteer groups.<\/p>\nOn Monday morning the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations criticized Coulter\u2019s request, saying he falsely linked the signs to violent extremism while noting that there are members of Michigan\u2019s Jewish community who advocate for the rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call on the Road Commission to reject Oakland County Executive David Coulter\u2019s biased attempt to silence voices in support of Palestinian humanity,\u201d the group\u2019s executive director, Dawud Walid, said in a statement. \u201cPalestinians have been subjected to ethnic cleansing and genocide \u2013 with the complicity of our nation and the international community \u2013 because they have been dehumanized and denied their human rights for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n
Craig Bryson, senior communications manager for the road commission, told Michigan Advance on Monday that the signs were put up last week, with one sign at either end of the segment of Orchard Lake Road between Maple Road and Walnut Lake Road. Bryson said they were taken down Sunday morning \u201cin the interest of safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last thing in the world that we want is for people to either experience fear or anxiety or God forbid something worse because of a sign along the road,\u201d Bryson said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re going to do now is review the situation. We have taken them down temporarily. We don\u2019t know what the future of the signs will be until we have a chance to review it some more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryson said the road commission was not certain how long the review would take, noting that the commission\u2019s board and its legal department would be playing an active role in the review.<\/p>\n
Individuals or groups can apply to adopt a segment of road which has not already been adopted, Bryson said, noting that the person who adopted the segment at issue lived nearby, and applied to adopt the road last year, before the attack on the synagogue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since at least the 1980s, the road commission has allowed any organization willing to clean up a stretch of road to adopt a segment, Bryson said, later noting that it\u2019s not uncommon for a city mayor, county commissioner or other politicians to adopt a road.<\/p>\n
The road commission does review the names on the signs, Bryson said, noting that things like profanity or overt racism would not be allowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo my knowledge, this type of issue has not come up before,\u201d Bryson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of Adopt-A-Road signs sharing support for Palestinians have been removed following concerns from Oakland County officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9054,147072,340,147073,9050,1071,795,9066,143,904,145,144,3783,4007,9061,9051,9062,37570,9045,43886,103428],"class_list":["post-361818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arab-israeli-conflict","tag-craig-bryson","tag-israel","tag-israel-related-controversies","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-local-government","tag-michigan","tag-middle-east","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-palestine","tag-palestinians","tag-politics-of-israel","tag-politics-of-palestine","tag-politics-of-the-middle-east","tag-road-commission-of-oakland-county","tag-society-of-palestine","tag-synagogue","tag-temple-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}