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LIHWAP Participation and Disclosure of Public Enterprise Billing Information

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

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Social Services Confidentiality: A Few FAQs During the Pandemic

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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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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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New Rules for Online Access to Databases and Other Records

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Animal Services Records: Common Threads for Different Programs

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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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Two New Exceptions to the Public Records Law Protect Citizen Information

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

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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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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 Tax Websites and Public Records Law

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Custodians of Public Records

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

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

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

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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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Can I See What’s in My Personnel File?

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Ethics and Employee Email

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Closed Session Minutes and General Accounts Under the Public Records Law

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Dealing With Massive Public Records Requests

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Draft Records Under the Public Records Law

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

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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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Limitations on the Collection and Use of Social Security Numbers by Local Government Utilities

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

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

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Public Records Mediation and Attorneys’ Fees Provisions

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

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Citizen Participation Information as Public Record

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Client-Related Records and the Public Records Law