North Carolina judge allows access to Butch Davis' cellphone
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August 13, 2012
North Carolina: Judge Howard Manning Jr., of North Carolina's 10th Judicial District, ruled that calls made on the personal cell phone of former University of North Carolina football coach Butch Davis could be used by lawyers in a public records lawsuit. The Aug. 9th ruling explained that university business conducted by UNC chancellors and coaches on their personal cellphones is public information. However, the judge allowed Davis to keep his cellphone bills to himself to preserve the privacy of his personal matters.
Judge Manning wrote:
| “ | “(I) do not believe that our government officials, including University officials and coaches, are entitled to use the personal cellphone ‘dodge’ to evade the North Carolina Public Records law. If Chancellors of the UNC system are doing this thinking that they can avoid public scrutiny of their cellphone records by using their personal cellphones to conduct public business, they need to re-think their decision.”[1] | ” |
The decision sprouts from a lawsuit filed by various North Carolina media companies as they attempted to obtain public records to help their coverage of a NCAA investigation.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 News Observer, "Judge allows access to business-related calls on Butch Davis' cellphone," August 9, 2021
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