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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 parties questioned whether worker privacy would be violated and employees opened up to underhanded alleg...

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 Norman Sanderson (R-Carteret, Craven, Pamlico); Bill Rabon (R-Bladen, Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender); ...

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 vanguard of the best open government states in the country,” said John Bussian, a Raleigh intellec...