Cooper’s pick to head parole commission led law-enforcement group backing H.B. 2

Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday named Surry County Sheriff Graham H. Atkinson, a Democrat, to serve on the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission. Atkinson is president of the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association, which publicly supported provisions in House Bill 2 that prevented a person of one gender from using the bathroom assigned to...