In 2021 North Carolina legislators implemented a law intended to automatically erase arrest records in criminal cases where people were found not guilty or the charges were dismissed. But after ...

North Carolina lawmakers voted to restore automatic expunctions of some state criminal charges after overcoming previous reservations among Republican House members. Top GOP lawmakers appointed to ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. One in four North Carolinians have an arrest or criminal convictions on their record.

A bipartisan proposal to fix issues with the implementation of a state law that provided for arrest records to be automatically erased in some cases is no longer moving forward. Instead, a legislative ...

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Calling it a matter of school safety, state lawmakers could require criminal history checks for anyone who wants to teach or work in a North Carolina public school. Currently, school districts have ...