GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons who suffer from Hepatitis C filed a federal class-action lawsuit against state officials today, arguing that North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety refuses to provide medically necessary, life-saving treatment.

RALEIGH – Late last night, North Carolina lawmakers rewrote Senate Bill 325 to limit early voting options for North Carolinians. The bill eliminates the last Saturday of early voting, when more than 100,000 voters have historically cast their ballot, a disproportionate number of whom are Black.

RALEIGH – The N.C. House of Representatives voted to approve a bill that would give local law enforcement sweeping, unprecedented power to look through a person’s entire history of prescription drug use if they are under investigation for any drug crime.

RALEIGH – North Carolina House Representative Beverly Boswell has agreed to release un-redacted public records of her office correspondence in response to a public records lawsuit filed by a Kitty Hawk resident and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.