NC Open Government

From Mountain Xpress (3/13/13): In honor of Sunshine Week in North Carolina, Carolina Public Press announces it will hold a "Full Disclosure" workshop series at three Western North Carolina locations from April 3-5.

From WRAL.com (3/12/13): A lawmaker's effort to make it a criminal misdemeanor for an official to violate North Carolina's public records and open meetings laws faces an uphill climb in the state Senate after committee members and local government lobbyists objected.

From the Port City Daily (3/12/13): The state’s Open Meetings Law requires boards that “exist solely to conduct the people’s business,” do so openly—including hearings, deliberations and actions.

From the Burlington Times-News (3/11/13): A new application for your smartphone will help make you an open government watchdog.

From the Gaston Gazette (3/11/13): Open government now has an app in North Carolina.

From the New Bern Sun Journal (3/11/13): It’s Sunshine Week, the time every year when newspapers across American call attention to the importance of open meetings and public records laws in our free society.

From USA Today (3/10/13): When asked to name an event occurring in March, many would identify St. Patrick's Day. Sports fans might default to March Madness. A small cadre of die-hards with a fanatical dedication to open government will answer Sunshine Week, which starts Sunday. All three answers are correct, even though it might not be immediately clear how they're connected.

From the Burlington Times-News (3/8/13): It’s Sunshine Week. That’s an expression that usually doesn’t register with people caught up in the basic tasks of going to work, getting kids to school and running the dozens of errands that have to be accomplished in a given week.

From SPLC.org (3/8/13): he North Carolina Supreme Court split evenly today in a ruling that leaves unresolved the openness of private college police records.

From the Raleigh News & Observer (3/8/13): Court split on whether private-school police records are public