Colin Donohue

From DavidsonNews.net (1/24/11): The editor of The Charlotte Observer is now saying the paper may decide against sending e-mail to citizens whose addresses it obtains the rough a public-records request of local governments. But the paper is defending its request for the records, which comes as a lobbying group for the state’s cities and towns is proposing limits on public access to citizen e-mail lists.

From WFAE 90.7 FM (1/24/11): As the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and several other cities in the region prepare to hand over tens of thousands of private citizen e-mail addresses to the Charlotte Observer, the state's League of Municipalities is gearing up to prevent such disclosure in the future. Last week the group made it a top legislative priority to limit access to government e-mail lists.

From WSOCTV.com (1/24/11): Officials in Durham want North Carolina lawmakers to give police permission to alter 911 calls before they are released to the public.

From DavidsonNews.net (1/22/11): Town officials in Davidson are trying to figure out how to respond to a public records request from The Charlotte Observer for e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of citizens who subscribe to the town's e-mail and telephone alert services.

From the Greenville Daily Reflector (1/16/11): The Pitt County Board of Commissioners corrected a judgment error, and a likely violation of the state's Open Meetings Law, on Monday when it voted to release minutes from a recent closed session. It was in that session that members instructed the county attorney to withdraw support for the Pitt County Health Board's appeal of a court decision about the enforcement of the statewide smoking ban.