Introduction Letter - NC Overcriminaization Task Force | Eastern NC Now

 Publisher's note: The author of this post is Jon Guze, who is the Director of Legal Studies for the John Locke Foundation.

 In the last two years, academics and scholars of public policy have identified North Carolina as a state with an overly complex criminal code that can ensnare small businesses, farmers, and individuals who unknowingly fail to comply with regulatory rules. In 2014, Professor Jeff Welty of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government published an article in the North Carolina Law Review, "Overcriminalization in North Carolina"; and James Copland and Isaac Gorodetski, directors respectively of the Center for Legal Policy and the Center for State and Local Leadership at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, published a primer, "Overcriminalizing the Old North State."

 Introduction Letter — NC Overcriminalization Task Force