It’s unfortunate that misinformation about the bipartisan Personal Privacy Protection Act led to a veto. Thankfully, a bipartisan contingent in the General Assembly was undeterred.
As North Carolina continues to grapple with these issues, policymakers must remember that the principles at stake — free speech, free association, and protection from government intimidation — are not negotiable.
The bill would codify existing laws prohibiting state and local government agencies from collecting, disclosing, or demanding information that identifies a person’s association with a nonprofit organization.
Senate Bill 416, titled the Personal Privacy Protection Act, cleared the General Assembly and now sits on the desk of Gov. Josh Stein for consideration.
Imagine if every time you donated to a cause you believe in—be it an environmental group, pro-life advocacy, or criminal justice reform—you had to worry that your name might wind up on a government list and made public to those who opposed the cause.
State lawmakers are considering a bill that would keep charitable donors’ personal information private. On Tuesday, the Senate judiciary committee voted to advance the Personal Privacy Protection Act sponsored by Sens. Warren Daniel, R-Burke; Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell; and Tim Moffitt, R-Henderson.
We are a generous and giving people. We exercise our First Amendment rights to support causes and ideas we believe in by donating our hard-earned money. But some actions by the federal government threaten those rights and state lawmakers are prepared to act now to protect North Carolinians’ freedom of speech. Americans gave $449 Billion...
U.S. Senate Democrats are endangering constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and assembly in their attempts to coerce the John Locke Foundation and other free-market organizations to comply with climate change investigations, while threatening them with charges under statutes reserved for criminal racketeering, two constitutional experts say. “All they’re doing is doing what blowhards do, which...
DENVER, Colo. — Often the goal is to force conservative advocacy and nonprofit organizations to disclose their private donor lists so that those individuals can be targeted for public ridicule or government investigation, even though anonymous donors have accounted for less than 5 percent of political spending in the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.
Advocates of campaign-finance reform are upset about the prominence of independent expenditures in the 2010 election cycle. But they helped make it happen.
Advocates of campaign-finance reform are upset about the prominence of independent expenditures in the 2010 election cycle. But they helped make it happen.
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