The Latest: Regulator: Regulator to testify on Flint water
Keith Creagh, director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, says the state did not require corrosion treatment after officials noticed elevated lead levels in January 2015.
In prepared testimony for a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Creagh said state officials "relied on technical compliance (with the law) instead of assuring safe drinking water."
Attorney Geoffrey Fieger says the suit was filed in Genesee Circuit Court alleges McLaren Flint hospital and state officials didn't do enough to protect patients against the outbreak.
About one-third of the infected people's homes received Flint water, which was found to have elevated lead levels after the city began drawing from the Flint River.
Detroit Public Schools spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski tells The Associated Press in an email that Darnell Earley declined an invitation to testify Wednesday before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
State regulators failed to require water from the Flint River be properly treated, allowing lead from pipes to leach into the supply and causing a public health emergency.
U.S. attorney's spokeswoman Gina Balaya in Detroit told The Associated Press in an email Tuesday that her office also is working with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.