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In the short, three-year history of mug shot websites, they've already shown how easy it is to evolve in novel ways. Experts say that may make legislating them into compliance problematic.
Tyler Dukes
Competing provisions in the state legislature are taking aim at mug shot that charge to remove the images, even if a person is cleared. But experts say the rules might not help.
State Sen. Thom Goolsby and his firm, Empowered Investor, have agreed not to offer investment advice for at least 10 years.
Mark Binker
A bill aimed at restarting the death penalty in North Carolina is headed to Gov. Pat McCrory's desk. The measure repeals the last vestiges of the Racial Justice Act.
A proposal to repeal the remainder of the 2009 Racial Justice Act could be up for a House vote Monday after passing its final committee Wednesday morning.
Laura Leslie
Senators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a $20.6 billion budget that Republican leaders say will help right North Carolina fiscal ship even as Democrats slammed cuts to schools and economic development programs.
House lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday on a bill that would dissolve the lease for the Dorothea Dix property but offer the City of Raleigh concessions for not fighting a rewrite of the deal.
A bill that would remove the last vestiges of the Racial Justice Act and make several technical changes to state law would allow executions to be carried out in North Carolina again, its backers say.
Sen. Thom Goolsby says his bill would end de facto moratorium on death penalty by repealing the last vestiges of the Racial Justice Act and clarifying other death penalty laws.
The state Senate will likely vote next week on a bill requiring human traffickers whose victims are minors to register as sex offenders, whether or not the trafficking is for sexual purposes.
State Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-District 9 (New Hanover)
