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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 2021, championed by Sen. Norman Sanderson, (R), representing the 2nd Senate district of Carteret, Cra...
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 they vote against the act when it is brought to floor this coming week, just days before the deadli...
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 approved by the same committee. Bill sponsor Sen. Norm Sanderson, a Pamlico County Republican, said...
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 Committee. SB 355 applies to each department, agency, institution, commission and bureau of the state, incl...