From the Jacksonville Daily News (2/6/10): Ongoing investigations into alleged improprieties during the administration of former Gov. Mike Easley has provided a fascinating, albeit disheartening, glimpse into how casually some bureaucrats treat the subversion of the state’s laws regarding public records.

• High-level abuse of public records

From the Greensboro News and Record (2/5/10): North Carolinians knew their governor from 2001 to 2009 as Mike Easley, former crime-fighting prosecutor and crusading attorney general.

• Editorial: Nick Danger, secret governor

From the Durham Herald-Sun (2/4/10): On a day when reports surfaced that her predecessor did business through a secret e-mail account, Gov. Beverly Perdue told city and county managers from around the state they have to follow the law and operate open governments.

• Gov. Perdue emphasizes transparency in state govt.

From the Beaufort Observer (2/1/10): The Beaufort County Board of Education often makes many of its decision out of public view. This is a violation of the N. C. Open Meetings law, certainly in spirit if not technically. The intent of the law is that the public have access to the information, discussion and actual vote on any action any board takes.

• School board takes its secret agenda to a new level
• Board Meeting Video

From the Asheville Citizen-Times (1/31/10): North Carolina needs a public-records law that makes documents created at public expense available to the public within a reasonable time.

• Tar Heel state needs public records standards

From the Greensboro News and Record (12/23/09): A judge’s ruling on whether to release police dash cam videos of the moments that led up to the fatal shooting of a UNC-Chapel Hill student by Archdale police in August won’t come until at least next week, a court official said Wednesday morning.

• Ruling on video release in Archdale police shooting delayed

From WRAL.com (1/22/10): A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that footage from a police video camera showing the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student last summer would remain sealed.

• Police video in UNC student's slaying to remain sealed

From the Fayetteville Observer (1/21/10): The Fayetteville Police Department has spent the past week defending its policy of not routinely reporting sexual assaults.

• Fayetteville Police Department's rape report policy is not written