For decades North Carolina has ranked near the bottom of all states in the country when it comes to the public’s right to know what went wrong when a government employee is transferred, demoted …
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Sandy Hurley & Bill Moss
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3/7/22
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The North Carolina General Assembly remains poised to make open government history next week when lawmakers return to Raleigh for the last time in 2021. It has been a while since our legislature has …
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Sandy Hurley & Bill Moss
North Carolina Press Association
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11/22/21
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Embattled Myers Park High Principal Mark Bosco has a new job in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, following a nearly-three month investigation and suspension prompted by complaints from students that he …
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Observer ANNA MARIA DELLA COSTA
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10/15/21
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Link to Full story at Goldsboro News Argus
Shycole Simpson-Carter, Goldsboro’s former community relations director, said Friday the city is losing its top administrative …
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TYLER STOCKS and ROCHELLE MOORE
tstocks@newsargus.com
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10/15/21
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Link to Full story
Goldsboro’s travel and tourism director has resigned, making her the sixth of the city’s 16 department heads to leave the city during the past 10 …
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TYLER STOCKS
tstocks@newsargus.com
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10/15/21
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Three Wilmington police officers were fired last year after video footage from one officer’s cruiser revealed they had made a slew of racist and hate-filled remarks. Employee records …
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N&O Editorial Board
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9/28/21
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When the 2021 session of the General Assembly began, passage of legislation to advance public access to records of disciplinary actions taken by those employed by taxpayers in state and local …
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Sandy Hurley and Bill Moss
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9/27/21
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Open Government access in North Carolina went through several historic steps this legislative session, and despite the work of anti-transparency lobbying groups representing teachers and state …
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6/30/21
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This secrecy is at odds with North Carolina's otherwise broad commitment to principles of government transparency that promote our informed democracy. In other areas of public records law, …
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6/11/21
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It’s no secret that disciplinary records of taxpayer-funded employees are kept behind lock and key. That shroud of secrecy prevents the public from finding out why a teacher moves from school …
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NORMAN SANDERSON, BILL RABON AND JOYCE KRAWIEC
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5/27/21
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A Wilson Times editorial
Who says North Carolina’s state employees and schoolteachers are against transparency?
Lobbying efforts from the State Employees Association of North Carolina …
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The Wilson Times
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5/25/21
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With no meaningful state law giving North Carolinians the right to see disciplinary records of those they employ in state and local government jobs, how will we ever know?
How will we know …
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PAUL MAUNEY and BILL MOSS
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5/20/21
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The NC Press Association 1) corrects the misinformation in NCAE's letter about the public records laws in other states (where virtually complete public access to the entire government personnel file …
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5/10/21
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Senate Bill 355, legislation that promotes and enhances public access to the performance records of public employees, is generating significant resistance from various state organizations that have …
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Carteret County News Times Editorial
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5/7/21
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North Carolina taxpayers will have access to the reasons why government employees are hired, fired, promoted, demoted or suspended if a bill proposed in the state Legislature and cosponsored by state …
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Amy B. McCraw,
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4/6/21
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The following are all true North Carolina stories — but we never learned the whole story, or else learned it well after the fact:
— A popular schools superintendent in Moore County was …
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The Fayetteville Observer
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4/6/21
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The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (NCAB) 1 and the North Carolina Press Association (NCPA)2 strongly support the Government Transparency Act of 2021 – Senate Bill 355 – …
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4/1/21
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The days of having government employees fade into oblivion without any mention of the misdeeds that led to their dismissal may soon be over in North Carolina if the newly proposed Government …
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AMELIA HARPER
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4/1/21
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Senate Bill 355 — the Government Transparency Act of 2021 — would at last allow the public to see the disciplinary files of public employees, files that have long been held in secret in …
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THE NEWS REPORTER
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3/31/21
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A growing number of senators are signing on to a bill that would make more information available to the public on government employee performance.
Under Senate Bill 355, a description of the …
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Andrew Dunn. Carolina Journal
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3/30/21
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