NC Open Government

From the Wilmington StarNews (11/17/10): Do you live in a planned community? Most housing/condominium developments in North Carolina are and will be planned communities. Within these communities the most powerful organization is the homeowners association.

From the Charlotte Observer (11/12/10): Three cheers for Grayson Kelley and JB Kelly, who appear to have both common sense and the ability to accurately interpret law. Their work should go a long way toward letting taxpayers know what their governments are doing.

From the Charlotte Observer (11/11/10): An opinion released Monday by the N.C. Attorney General's office concerning the retroactive release of personnel records for public workers also applies to municipalities, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

From the Charlotte Observer (11/11/10): During his decades in the General Assembly and at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Roy Cooper has spoken as a champion of open government.

From the Wilkes Journal-Patriot (11/5/10): Wilkes County commissioners on Monday agreed to delay action on a proposed code of ethics until two new members of the board take office on Dec. 6.

The North Carolina Open Government Coalition issued a request for proposals to manage its newly formed endowment.

From the Charlotte Observer (11/1/10): Two Latin words form the motto of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Lux Libertas - light and liberty. They are appropriate words for a university dedicated to learning. Yet UNC leaders believe that their obligations to student privacy under state and federal law do not give them the liberty to provide as much light about an ongoing football investigation as the state's news media do.

Several of the nation's top scholars in Intellectual Property law, technology and the Internet will gather on October 29 at Elon University School of Law to explore how the Internet impacts public access to information and how society balances the desire for increased access to information with the need for secrecy, privacy and control.