Audit: School of the Arts Official Gave Pricey State Laptop To Son

RALEIGH — A high-ranking manager at the UNC School of the Arts will keep her $114,695 a year job despite investigative findings that she improperly gave a state computer to her son for use at college and then obtained another one for herself at taxpayer expense. The Office of State Auditor said Lisa Smith, chief information officer at the School of the Arts, “may have violated” a state statute prohibiting procuring state property for personal use, a misdemeanor.