The North Carolina Open Government Coalition is leading a project to educate the public and encourage collaboration among journalists covering the University of North Carolina. The coalition, partnering with journalists, professors and nonprofit organizations, filed eight requests with the university, seeking records related to the hiring of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones as the Knight […]
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UNC one of two universities to use new public records request portal
The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Public Records Office has changed the way people make public records requests to the University.
They now use Next Request, a web-based portal, to field public records requests. Before this change, requests were made via email and displayed as open or closed on the public records website.
Gavin Young, senior director for the Public Records Office, said the University of New Mexico is the only other school using Next Request.
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The Daily Tar Heel files lawsuit against UNC to obtain campus sexual assault records
The Daily Tar Heel filed a lawsuit against UNC on Monday for access to public records regarding sexual assault cases on campus.
The Daily Tar Heel requested the records Sept. 30 and set a deadline of Oct. 28 which the University did not meet.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of The Daily Tar Heel, the Capital Broadcasting Company, the Charlotte Observer Publishing Company and The Durham Herald Company against Chancellor Carol Folt as the custodian of the records and Gavin Young, senior director for public records at UNC.
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