From the Raleigh News and Observer (6/16/11): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Wednesday night that it would release phone records and parking tickets sought by The News and Observer and other media companies in the wake of an NCAA investigation of the UNC football program.
The university’s decision came on the same day that the state Court of Appeals denied UNC’s request to delay the release of those records as it appealed an April 19 Wake Superior Court ruling in the media organizations’ favor by Judge Howard Manning.
Wednesday’s ruling vacated a June 2 order in which the university had been granted a temporary reprieve from releasing the records, which UNC officials have maintained are private, citing federal student privacy protection laws.