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Legislature Decriminalizes Local Ordinances

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Immediate Disclosure of Body-Worn Cameras Related to Death or Serious Bodily Injury

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Public Meetings After the Lifting of the State-Level State of Emergency

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Clarification of Rules for Remote Meetings Under State Level State of Emergency: No More Waiting 24 Hours After Public Hearings!

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Where (and Just What) is the “Personnel File”?

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New Rules for Meetings of Public Bodies During State-Level Declared Emergencies

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Meetings and Public Hearings Under the Coronavirus State of Emergency

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City Obligations for Providing Services to Annexed Areas

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Is That All There Is? Strategies for Proving a Negative When a Person Alleges That Their Request for Records Has Not Been Fulfilled

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Retention Schedules for Local Governments: Five Things You Should Know

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Settlements Under the North Carolina Public Records Law

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The First Amendment Keeps the “Social” in Government Social Media

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Answers to Questions About the Mayor Pro Tem.

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How to Approve Minutes and General Accounts of Closed Sessions

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Formulating Plans for Responding to School Violence in Closed Session: Who Can Attend?

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Mediation of Public Records Disputes is Jurisdictional

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Satellite Area Boundaries are Corporate Limits, But Not for Purposes of Contiguous Annexation or ETJ.

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It’s Campaign Season: What Are the Rules About What City and County Officials May Say and Do?

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Prayer at Local Government Meetings: An Evolving Jurisprudence

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Excusing Board Members from Voting on the Budget

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New Rules for Online Access to Databases and Other Records

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Open Meetings Book: New Edition Now Available

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Email as Public Record: Five Things You Should Know [Updated]

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Local Acts Relating to Health and Sanitation: Supreme Court Weighs in On Asheville and Boone Cases

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Post-Election Questions? Blog Posts Have Answers

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The Peaceful and Orderly Transfer of Power: Answers to Questions About Organizational Meetings and Swearing In New Board Members

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Board Majorities Attending External Events or Meetings: When is Notice Required?

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Answers to Questions About North Carolina’s Body-Worn Camera Law

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The Latest on North Carolina Body-Worn Camera Legislation

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Legislative Proposal Regarding Body-Worn Cameras

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Requests For Public Records Under FOIA: How Should Local Governments Respond?

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Public Comment Period Policies: What’s Legal?

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The “Government Speech” Doctrine and Local Government Meetings: Can the Government Take Sides?

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Setting Salaries and Closed Sessions

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Two New Exceptions to the Public Records Law Protect Citizen Information

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Legislative Transfer of Asheville Water System Is Constitutional

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New Public Records Exceptions for Security and Law Enforcement Officers (LEO) Information

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Annexation Agreements for Economic Development – Not an Option

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AOC Database is Not Subject to the Public Records Act

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Trial Court Review of Closed Session Minutes

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The North Carolina Criminal Self-Dealing Statute (G.S. 14-234): Five Things You Should Know

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Removing Members of Appointed Boards

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Donating Property: Beware of Constitutional Constraints

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When Board Members Won’t Talk Back

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Using Private Email for Public Business: Is it Illegal in North Carolina?

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Law Enforcement Video Camera Records: An Ongoing National Debate About Transparency

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County and Municipal Government in North Carolina: New Edition is Now Available

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What’s a Public Body?

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Voting Rules for Adopting Ordinances

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Custodians of Public Records

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Polling the Board

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Selecting and Appointing a New City or County Attorney: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

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How Public Are Law Enforcement Vehicle or Body Camera Videos? (Not Very, in North Carolina.)

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Attorneys’ Fees For Acting Outside the Scope of Authority (G.S. 6-21.7)

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Privacy, Privatization, and Transparency: 2014 Public Records and Open Meetings Legislation

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Locally Adopted Voting Rules

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Who Has Access to Applicant Information?

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Recording Closed Sessions

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Is a Quorum Necessary for a Public Hearing?

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Anonymous Tips: Can They Really Be Anonymous? [Revised]

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Quick-Reference Guide for Closed Sessions

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Databases Under the Public Records Law

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Canceling Meetings and Hearings Because of Inclement Weather

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Approving Minutes of Meetings You Didn’t Attend

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Giving and Receiving Gifts

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Who May Attend a Closed Session?

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Do Mayors Have a Duty to Vote?

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Board Members at Candidate Forums: Does the Open Meetings Law Apply?

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Voluntary Annexation: An Overview

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Removing an Elected Official by Amotion: Judge Says It Can Be Done

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Remote Participation in Meetings

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It’s All Relative

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Can the Board Take Action in a Workshop Meeting?

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Are Mug Shots Public Records?

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Who Can Request Public Records?

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Charging for Copies of Public Records

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Who Controls the Agenda?

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Can I See What’s in My Personnel File?

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Now Therefore, Be It Resolved…

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Criticizing Public Employees in Public

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Unexcused Absences

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Deannexation

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Are Security Videos Public Records?

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Is North Carolina a Dillon’s Rule State?

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Local Acts and General Laws: Another Look

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Closed Session Minutes and General Accounts Under the Public Records Law

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Annexation Reform: Referendum Replaces Petition to Deny

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I Hereby Resign! Wait! I Changed My Mind!

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A Road Trip, a Parking Lot Conversation, and a Site Visit: Are These Illegal Meetings?

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Dealing With Massive Public Records Requests

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Form, Format, and Medium: How Must Electronic Records Be Provided?

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Draft Records Under the Public Records Law

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Local Government Authority: Piecing it Together

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Board Member Financial Interest: Mapping the Points on the Continuum

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Canceling and Rescheduling Meetings

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Open Meetings and the Public’s Right to Speak

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Texting While Meeting: Is it Illegal for Local Government Officials?

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Court Does Not Have Authority to Grant Public Access to Personnel Records

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Are Cell Phone Bills Public Records?

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Annexing Streets – Interpreting S.L. 2011-57, and Dealing With Half a Street

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911 Calls and Protecting the Natural Voice – Mandatory or Optional?

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Does the Board Have to Approve This?

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Water and Sewer Extensions “At No Cost” – Analyzing the New Annexation Law

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Annexation Reform: A Summary of the New Law

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Email Subscriber Lists: A New Exception to the Public Records Law

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Ask, Don’t Compel: Local Government Authority to Establish Rules For Public Records Requests

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When Do Government Transparency Laws Apply to Private Entities?

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Agreements to Petition for Voluntary Annexation: Do They Run With the Land?

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The Whole Enchilada: NC Court of Appeals Rules on Access Requirements Under the Open Meetings Law

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Self-Executing Constitutional Provisions

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Repealing a City Charter

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Records About Employment Actions: Clarifying What Is and Isn’t Public

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Filling a Vacancy on the Town Council

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Dismissals for Poor Performance: Legal Implications Under the Personnel Privacy Statutes

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Is a Survey A Public Record? Another Application of the Framework for Analyzing Public Records Questions

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Release of Personnel Records: What Rights Does An Employee Have?

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Attorney General Opinion on 2010 Personnel Privacy Changes

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Calculating Majorities

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About Town Administrators

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A Reasonable Search of Employee Records: City of Ontario v. Quon

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Waiting for Interpretations of the New Personnel Privacy Provisions: What Options Do Local Governments Have?

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Access to Records or Lists of Information: What Does the Public Records Law Require?

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Individual Board Member Access to Email

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Public Records Mediation and Attorneys’ Fees Provisions

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Personnel Privacy Law Changes

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Are Local Government Employee Time Sheets Public Records? (Applying the Framework for Answering Questions About Public Records Requests)

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Is This a Public Record? A Framework For Answering Questions About Public Records Requests

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Voting and Taking Action in Closed Sessions

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Getting Your Message Across: What Can Public Officials Say In Support of Pending Policies or Proposals?

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Airing Dirty Laundry in Public: Does the Law Require It?

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Citizen Participation Information as Public Record

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What Is A Local Act?

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Tapping Private Resources for Construction of Public Facilities – Some Legal Limitations Local Government Officials Should Know About

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Free Speech Rights in Government Social Media Sites

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Answers to Questions About Committees

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Board Members as Employees

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Powers of Mayors

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What Happens in Closed Session, Stays in Closed Session…Or Does It?

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Binding Future Boards

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Lame Ducks and Members-Elect: What Can They Do After the Election and Before Swearing In?

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I Second that Amotion

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“Approved as to Form”

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Postcards from Home Rule States

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Monuments in Parks: Government Speech, Not Forum Analysis

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Board Members Who Serve on Nonprofit Boards – Conflict of Interest?

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“Official Conduct” – More on Excusing Board Members From Voting

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Excusing Board Members From Voting

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Conflicts of Interest: How Do The Voting Statutes Relate to the Criminal Statute?

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Limited Public Forum Analysis Revisited