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North Carolina has 43 prosecutorial districts, each consisting of up to seven counties. Criminal defendants who cannot to afford a private defense attorney are served by Indigent Defense Services, a state agency, through a public defender's office in certain judicial districts or a court appointed private attorney.
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
The State Archives of North Carolina, officially the North Carolina Division of Archives and Records, is a division of North Carolina state government responsible for collecting, preserving, and providing public access to historically significant archival materials relating to North Carolina, and responsible for providing guidance on the preservation and management of public government records ...
The Promotion of Access to Information Act [5] (PAIA) was enacted in response to the constitutional mandate, and came into force in large part in March 2001. Its preamble acknowledges the "secretive and unresponsive culture" of the pre-democratic era, and asserts that one object of PAIA is to "foster a culture of transparency and accountability in public and private bodies."
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation maintains the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry. [7] The Crime Reporting Unit is responsible for the collection of data from law enforcement agencies across North Carolina. In 2018, the SBI received its seventh re-accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. [8]
The case involving a Cornelius man is the country’s first criminal case over manipulating music streaming platforms like Spotify through AI. NC man’s ‘brazen fraud’ used bots, AI songs to ...
A 20-year-old American college student was found dead after she went missing while hiking Table Mountain in South Africa this weekend, officials said.. South African National Parks (SANParks ...
Sealing a record under 160.50 will prevent the public from having access or seeing the records, including fingerprint cards, photographs, court entries, and other information related to the case. The record may still be made available to some entities, such as courts and law enforcement.