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Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order on Jan. 29 that directs improvements to reentry and rehabilitation services for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in North Carolina through a collaborative approach involving multiple state governmental departments.
The N.C. Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice released its 2023 Year-End Report, which summarized its work in the criminal justice realm throughout the year, on Jan. 23.
On Feb. 21, 1996, an all-white jury of six men and six women sentenced Russell William Tucker, a Black man, to death for the murder of a Kmart security guard.
Update: 2:40 p.m.: District Attorney Jeff Nieman told reporters after the arraignment that his office would not be pursuing the death penalty. He also clarified that the gun on educational property charge would likely be refiled as a felony.
The Orange County Criminal Justice Resource Department is currently advancing the 2019 plans to create a crisis diversion facility that will serve individuals in Orange County experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis after funding was approved by the Orange County Board of County Commissioners.
Court-imposed fees in North Carolina have increased by 400 percent over the past 20 years, according to the North Carolina Justice Center. These fees can burden those who are unable to pay the increased cost with large amounts of debt.
Orange County sees increased reliance on behavioral and mental health disciplinary resources, which provide diversion options for adolescents and children who would otherwise enter the juvenile court system.
Hillsborough Mayor Pro Tem Matt Hughes was recently appointed to North Carolina’s Juvenile Justice Planning Committee, a part of Gov. Roy Cooper's Crime Commission.
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Orange County judges announced a comprehensive new bail policy on Jan. 24 aimed at strengthening pretrial justice in the community.
On Friday, after nearly 27 hours of deliberation over four days, the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse case came back with a verdict. They found the 18-year-old not guilty on all five counts he was charged with: first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree attempted intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released a funding opportunity on Oct. 19 intended to decrease the impact of the opioid crisis on people in the criminal justice system.
Twenty inmates and three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Orange County Detention Center as of Monday, raising concerns about overall pandemic control in detention centers.
Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law last week a bill that will expand opportunities for people to have felonies expunged from their records.
Two bills addressing criminal justice reform are sitting in a North Carolina Senate committee after being unanimously passed by the N.C. House in early May.
On April 21, Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man whose family attorneys say was unarmed, outside his home in Elizabeth City — an event that shook the small community of almost 18,000 people.
The Orange County Bail/Bond Justice Project is donating 20 percent of its fund to other types of court assistance after a sharp decrease in detentions this past year.
Update May 7 at 1:46 p.m.: A judge ruled Thursday that Andrew Brown Jr.'s family will only be able to view less than 20 minutes of the almost two hours of footage captured before and after Brown was killed.
The North Carolina State Senate unanimously voted on March 25 to pass a new bill that would raise the minimum age for juvenile delinquency from 6 to 10. Of states with a specified minimum age, North Carolina currently has the lowest in the nation.