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Henderson County (May 26, 2021) - RALEIGH — A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it.

Guest editorial: Transparency of operations is a constitutional issue Lockwood Phillips, publisher/owner of Carteret County News-Times N.C. 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 several things in common - they are all union related and they are determined to continue operating without public scrutiny. The Government Transparency Act of 2...

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 several things in common—they are all union related and they are determined to continue operating without public scrutiny. The Government Transparency Act of 2021, championed by Sen. Norman Sanderson, R-Craven, has generated a major letter writing and phone campaign to state senators demanding that...

NC Senate committee retools state worker records bill GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press May 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation requiring that more details about the personnel history of North Carolina state and local government employees be accessible to the media and the public was retooled on Wednesday by a Senate committee to address privacy concerns and vindictive bosses. The bill was voted out by the Senate judiciary panel a week after a previous version was...

A bill filed last month in the North Carolina Legislature that would allow the public greater access to the personnel files of state and local government employees — including teachers, law enforcement and city and county workers — moved one step closer to passage this week. Senate Bill 355, which would grant public access to information concerning terminations, suspensions and other disciplinary actions, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 27 and now heads to the Rules Committ...

More government worker info public in N Carolina Senate bill GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press April 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More details about why North Carolina state and local government employees and educators were demoted, suspended or transferred would be made public under legislation that cleared a Senate committee on Tuesday. The measure, backed by the North Carolina Press Association, advanced through the committee by a voice vote. Members from both part...

Second, they make decisions that affect our lives, our families, our children, our communities. Third, we have a right to know what they are up to, as they work on behalf of the public. But in all cases, North Carolina’s overly strict laws governing personnel records kept important and relevant details shielded from the public eye. A proposed bill in the N.C. General Assembly, Senate Bill 355, The Government Transparency Act of 2021, seeks to change that. The bill’s primary sponsors are Nor...

State report calls for greater police transparency A task force founded by Gov. Roy Cooper in the wake of violent protests after the police killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd last summer makes dozens of recommendations to strengthen and support North Carolina’s law enforcement community, including several that would lead to greater transparency by law enforcement agencies.  “It’s high time that North Carolina’s open government laws move out of the basement and into the ...