Times News Publishing v. The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education. Times News, a newspaper publisher, originally sought to compel the Board of Education to provide unredacted minutes of a series of closed-session meetings. The meetings at issue involved the resignation of the superintendent and an agreement to pay more than $220,000 in severance and vacation pay. After a …
Brooksby v. N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts. Plaintiffs contacted clerks’ offices in ninety North Carolina counties seeking to copy and scan public foreclosure records using their own staff and equipment. They pulled foreclosure records, then scanned them using cell phones and portable cameras and scanners. In June 2013, the Randolph County Clerk’s Office denied …
LexisNexis Risk Data Management Inc., and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. v. North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts A database of North Carolina court records is not a public record, according to the state Supreme Court. In 2011, Lexis requested a copy of the AOC’s Automated Criminal/Infraction System (ACIS) under the Public Records Act. When …
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