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This bulletin explores acts prohibited by the North Carolina statutes on computer-related crime (Article 60 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes). It provides an overview of how those statutes have been applied and some criminal scenarios that may fall within their purview. The crimes covered include:

Note: A re-issue of this bulletin, which provides an update to the requirement described in the February 2022 entry of the “Miscellaneous Duties” section of the calendar, can be found here.

The annual School of Government publication, Finance Calendar of Duties for City and County Officials (2021–2022), identifies the timeline throughout the fiscal year...

The old cliché “It takes a village” is often used to refer to the rearing of children. However, it can also be used to describe the leveraging of networks to improve an organization’s capacity. As North Carolina begins the long recovery process from the pandemic, the resiliency of the state’s community development organizations (CDOs) is critical. How CDOs access and mobilize social capital is...

Unprecedented environmental transformation during the 2020 pandemic has forced public organizations be innovative at very short notice. Local governments in North Carolina had to change the way they provided services to citizens, rethink their internal systems, and adopt new policies and systems. In this bulletin, we focus on how and to what extent environmental stress...