From the Raleigh News and Observer (3/16/12): During his 35 years in the job, Raleigh City Attorney Tom McCormick has wrestled with open government issues more times than he can count. Sometimes, he's had to push officials toward being more open, and on occasion, he's defended them when their actions were challenged by the media.
But in the end he’s a solid advocate of openness, and these days he’s aware that the way things are said and done takes new forms through “social media.” At a forum Wednesday at a meeting of journalists at Elon University, McCormick rightly said he believed that public records laws in North Carolina probably need an update to cover the new electronic methods by which officials communicate.