Tag: American Civil Liberties Union

By Hannah Critchfield and Arabella Saunders In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take

By Taylor Knopf When the Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Enforcement (HOPE) Act came to the House floor of the General Assembly late Wednesday night, it spurred off and on debate about liberty and privacy from both sides of the aisle. Among other things, the HOPE Act aims to give law enforcement more tools to

By Taylor Knopf Last spring, Devon Davis said he was riding in the passenger seat of his early 2000s model Lexus when he and his buddy were stopped by Raleigh police. There was a gun in the vehicle. Davis said it belonged to the driver. The driver said it belonged to Davis: A classic case

By Taylor Knopf North Carolina is now the only state in the U.S. that automatically tries 16 and 17 year-olds as adults. Powerful House lawmakers introduced “Raise the Age” legislation to change that fact during the first week of March, but House Bill 280 has been stuck on a committee to-do list ever since. On

Rose Hoban – 11:50 meeting adjourns Rose Hoban – 11:47 Vicky Boyer, in opposition. “This bill does effectively take away a women’s right to abortion in NC. if you really want women’s health and safety, you really have adequately fund DHHS… to sort out all clinics that are doing well.” “When a woman becomes pregnant