The legal dispute over release of a $1.2 million report prepared for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is scheduled to return to court Tuesday. Media outlets want a judge to force university officials to release the report about the School of Civic Life and Leadership.
A Wake County Superior Court order Monday officially ended Republicans’ lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections over removing noncitizens from voting rolls after they are identified through jury questionnaires.
A Wake County judge has accepted a deal ending a Republican Party lawsuit against the State Board of Elections over removing noncitizens from voting rolls after they are identified through jury questionnaires.
An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced Senate Bill 990, which would study a shift to weighted K-12 funding, create a $395 educational wallet pilot, and shield campus disciplinary records from open-records requests.
A North Carolina bill advancing through the General Assembly would shield athlete revenue-sharing payments at UNC-system schools from the state's public records law. The bill would also expand stadium alcohol sales, ease in-state tuition rules for graduate athletes on full scholarships, and lift restrictions on university raffles.
Media outlets are seeking an “immediate” hearing in their lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over the release of a $1.2 million report on the School of Civic Life and Leadership.
North Carolina’s second-highest court must decide whether a trial judge violated a woman’s First Amendment rights when he limited her ability to share law enforcement videos with the public. The videos were tied to a state trooper’s fatal shooting of the woman’s dogs in 2024.
While North Carolina has made strides in government transparency, many of its tools remain cumbersome, inaccessible, or incomplete, making it difficult for taxpayers to track how their money is spent. A truly accountable government requires a modern, user-friendly system that provides real-time financial data and ensures public oversight at every level.
Democratic state legislators decided to play politics with a good idea for government openness and transparency.
On Tuesday, a coalition of media outlets led by the Carolina Journal sent a letter to all North Carolina lawmakers opposing language in the state budget that grants legislators broad discretion as custodians of their own public records, to determine what qualifies as a “public record.” Further, it allows for the destruction of documents lawmakers...
Among the policy changes in the 2023 state budget is a small mention of public records that has escaped notice by nearly everyone, except journalists. In section 27.9, a small paragraph from bill writers empowers records “custodians” at the NC General Assembly to determine what qualifies as a “public record” and what does not. That...
