NC Open Government

From the Shelby Star (8/21/12): There has been no shortage of troubling news reports coming out of the University of North Carolina football program during the coaching days of Butch Davis. Add one more with the puzzling decision handed down recently by Superior Court Judge Howard Manning.

From BlueRidgeNow.com (8/15/12): It's a shame Henderson County taxpayers won't learn the details of why the county's insurance carrier paid $90,000 to settle a female deputy's claim against former sheriff Rick Davis.

From the First Amendment Center (8/14/12): Trainers are telling state workers learning a new phone system that they can use an instant-messaging feature to keep information away from citizens' public-records requests, the state's open-records director told Gov. Tom Corbett in a letter.

From the Durham Herald-Sun (8/10/12): Butch Davis received a protective order that ensured his private cell phone records will not be released, but he may still have to reveal calls made from his personal phone that related to his job as the University of North Carolina's head football coach.

From the Durham Herald-Sun (8/13/12): The ruling was convoluted enough that one media outlet initially reported that Butch Davis' phone records were protected from being released.

From the Charlotte Observer (8/1/12): If you're looking for consistency in politicians, be they liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, young or old, you can find it in their attitudes toward public records.

From the Smithfield Herald (7/29/12): Two words ought to sufficiently explain why former UNC-Chapel Hill football coach Butch Davis should not prevail in his attempt to keep secret his personal cell-phone records: Mike Easley.

From the Fayetteville Observer (7/29/12): Government of the people, by the people and for the people is too often kept secret from the people.

From the John Locke Foundation: Triangle (7/26/12): North Carolina has been shown to be at the lower end of the 50 states in many different metrics, most recently job growth and education, but now there's a new one at which we are characteristically underperforming: public records availability:

From the National Freedom of Information Coalition(7/25/12): In an important case supported by the Knight FOI Fund, a grassroots public-interest organization has won a settlement agreement with the northern California city of Auburn over retention and disclosure policies regarding government emails.