North Carolina · statute · N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 132 · 35 active provisions
"Public records" defined. (a) "Public record" or "public records" shall mean all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data-processing records, artifacts, or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or r…
Confidential communications by legal counsel to public board or agency; State tax information; public enterprise billing information; Address Confidentiality Program information. (a) Confidential Communications. - Public records, as defined in G.S. 132-1, shall not include written communications (and copies thereof) to…
Confidential information. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to require or authorize a public agency or its subdivision to disclose any information that: (1) Meets all of the following conditions: a. Constitutes a "trade secret" as defined in G.S. 66-152(3). b. Is the property of a private "person" as defined i…
Settlements made by or on behalf of public agencies, public officials, or public employees; public records. (a) Public records, as defined in G.S. 132-1, shall include all settlement documents in any suit, administrative proceeding or arbitration instituted against any agency of North Carolina government or its subdivi…
The University of North Carolina athletic conference communications and other documentary materials; public records. Public records, as defined in G.S. 132-1, shall include all documents, papers, letters, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data-processing records, artifacts, or ot…
Criminal investigations; intelligence information records; Innocence Inquiry Commission records. (a) Records of criminal investigations conducted by public law enforcement agencies, records of criminal intelligence information compiled by public law enforcement agencies, and records of investigations conducted by the N…
Law enforcement agency recordings. (a) Definitions. - The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Body-worn camera. - An operational video or digital camera or other electronic device, including a microphone or other mechanism for allowing audio capture, affixed to the uniform or person of law enforcement agen…
911 database. Automatic number identification and automatic location identification information that consists of the name, address, and telephone numbers of telephone subscribers, or the email addresses of subscribers to an electronic emergency notification or reverse 911 system, that is contained in a county or munici…
Emergency response plans. Emergency response plans adopted by a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina, a community college, or a public hospital as defined in G.S. 159-39 and the records related to the planning and development of these emergency response plans are not public records as defined by…
Sensitive public security information. (a) Public records, as defined in G.S. 132-1, shall not include sensitive public security information, which means any of the following: (1) Information containing specific details of public security plans and arrangements or the detailed plans and drawings of public buildings and…
Alarm registration information. A public record, as defined by G.S. 132-1, does not include any registration or sensitive security information received or compiled by a city pursuant to an alarm registration ordinance. For purposes of this section, the term "alarm registration ordinance" means an ordinance adopted by a…
Confidentiality of photographs and video or audio recordings made pursuant to autopsy. Except as otherwise provided in G.S. 130A-389.1, a photograph or video or audio recording of an official autopsy is not a public record as defined by G.S. 132-1. However, the text of an official autopsy report, including any findings…
Trial preparation materials. (a) Scope. - A request to inspect, examine, or copy a public record that is also trial preparation material is governed by this section, and, to the extent this section conflicts with any other provision of law, this section applies. (b) Right to Deny Access. - Except as otherwise provided…
Social security numbers and other personal identifying information. (a) The General Assembly finds the following: (1) The social security number can be used as a tool to perpetuate fraud against a person and to acquire sensitive personal, financial, medical, and familial information, the release of which could cause gr…
Economic development incentives. (a) Assumptions and Methodologies. - Subject to the provisions of this Chapter regarding confidential information and the withholding of public records relating to the proposed expansion or location of specific business or industrial projects when the release of those records would frus…
Limited access to identifying information of minors participating in local government programs and programs funded by the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., or a local partnership in certain localities. (a) A public record, as defined by G.S. 132-1, does not include, as to any minor participating in a progr…
Limited access to identifying information of minors participating in local government parks and recreation programs and programs funded by the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., or a local partnership in other localities. (a) A public record, as defined by G.S. 132-1, does not include, as to any minor parti…
Electronic lists of subscribers open for inspection but not available for copying. (a) Notwithstanding this chapter, when a unit of local government maintains an email list of individual subscribers, this chapter does not require that unit of local government to provide a copy of the list. The list shall be available f…
Personally identifiable information of public utility customers. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a public record, as defined by G.S. 132-1, does not include personally identifiable information obtained by the Public Staff of the Utilities Commission from customers requesting assistance from the Public…
Eugenics program records. (a) Records in the custody of the State, including those in the custody of the Office of Justice for Sterilization Victims, concerning the Eugenics Board of North Carolina's program are confidential and are not public records, including the records identifying (i) individuals impacted by the p…
Custodian designated. The public official in charge of an office having public records shall be the custodian thereof. (1935, c. 265, s. 2.)
Destruction of records regulated. (a) Prohibition. - No public official may destroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of any public record, except in accordance with G.S. 121-5 and G.S. 130A-99, without the consent of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Whoever unlawfully removes a public record from the…
Disposition of records at end of official's term. Whoever has the custody of any public records shall, at the expiration of his term of office, deliver to his successor, or, if there be none, to the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, all records, books, writings, letters and documents kept or received by him…
Demanding custody. Whoever is entitled to the custody of public records shall demand them from any person having illegal possession of them, who shall forthwith deliver the same to him. If the person who unlawfully possesses public records shall without just cause refuse or neglect for 10 days after a request made in w…
Regaining custody; civil remedies. (a) The Secretary of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources or his designated representative or any public official who is the custodian of public records which are in the possession of a person or agency not authorized by the custodian or by law to possess such public recor…