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Former provost Chris Clemens has dropped his open meetings and public records lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A hearing is scheduled Wednesday in former Provost Chris Clemens' open meetings and public records lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2025 @ 9:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC Court of Appeals will allow a former Pinehurst Village Council member to proceed with his open-meetings lawsuit against the village. The decision reverses a trial judge.
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 5:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As a result of a hearing in the Superior Court of Beaufort County on November 26, 2018, the court (Jeffery B. Foster, Judge presiding) denied the motion of the Plaintiffs (William Ray Leary, Donna Lay and Gerald Seighman) to compel the Commissioners.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Citizens for Better Government of Beaufort County NC ("CBG"), with the assistance of the Civitas Institute, has filed suit against the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners.
Published: Saturday, April 29th, 2017 @ 1:54 am
By: Ray Leary
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A government body can't block the media from reporting on one of its public meetings because its leader doesn't like the coverage he thinks it will get.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Media law experts believe the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission violated the spirit — if not the letter — of state laws requiring the conduct of public meetings in a transparent manner
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 9:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said he is "alarmed" that the state Department of Public Instruction and State Board of Education agreed, possibly in violation of state open meetings laws and legislative requirements, to shift funds intended to help children learn to read into maintai
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 6:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you've ever wondered why we at the Observer are stickers for enforcement of the Open Meetings law this story will amply demonstrate the problem of governing boards meeting in secret session to make various decisions.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Joel Raupe wrote, here below, this celebratory piece briefly summarizing my efforts and intentions of when I first stood for election in 1994, and was elected to that Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners. Much has happened since then.
Published: Saturday, March 15th, 2014 @ 9:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A lawsuit filed by four former broadcasters and communications professionals claims the Charlotte City Council broke state open government laws when it went into closed session to discuss paying for renovations at Bank of America Stadium.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week state Sens. Thom Goolsby (R-New Hanover) and Tom Apadoca (R-Buncombe) sponsored legislation (SB 125) to make it a class 3 misdemeanor to violate public records and open meetings laws, which would at long last give those laws some teeth.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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