Flint lockup now open - ABC 12 – WJRT – Flint, MI

(10/01/12) - Flint's lockup is now open, after being closed since 2008.

Major Phil Hart, with the Genesee County Sheriff's Department, says it opened at 7 a.m. Monday.

The Genesee County Sheriff's Department is running the holding facility, which is housed inside the Flint Police Department.

The state of Michigan is paying for the more than $2 million one-year contract.

Hart says the first inmate was brought in at about 8 a.m. by Flint Police officers.