The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a Charlotte television station’s request to unseal law enforcement video footage linked to a 2019 shooting involving two police officers. A federal trial judge had rejected WBTV’s request.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) has turned over an investigation into missing campaign finance reports from candidates in Rockingham County to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
An investigation into missing campaign finance reports from candidates in Rockingham County, including nearly two decades worth of reports from county Sheriff Sam Page, will take place starting next week by the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE).
A Charlotte television reporter hopes the North Carolina Supreme Court will reverse a lower court’s decision blocking him from access to information linked to a fatal 2023 shooting. Nick Ochsner’s lawyer filed a petition Wednesday with the state’s highest court.
A split North Carolina Court of Appeals panel has rejected a Charlotte television reporter’s attempt to secure the names and addresses of private security guards involved in a fatal 2023 shooting. The court’s majority ruled that Allied Universal Security Service, or AUS, was not required to provide the information to WBTV investigative reporter Nick Ochsner.
One of new state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs’ last actions as a state Appeals Court judge was a ruling favoring WBTV in its public records dispute with the city of Charlotte. Riggs wrote the opinion for a unanimous three-judge panel favoring the television station’s owner, Gray Media. Appellate judges on Tuesday reversed a trial court decision favoring the city.
The NC Court of Appeals questioned Tuesday whether Charlotte city government should have turned over records of city council surveys more quickly when WBTV requested those records. The city’s obligation to produce those survey results makes up the heart of the debate in Gray Media Group v. City of Charlotte.
A coalition of media groups is taking interest in a public records dispute at the N.C. Court of Appeals. The case involves WBTV’s request for surveys completed by members of the Charlotte City Council in late 2020. The coalition filed paperwork Thursday seeking permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
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