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Crime in North Carolina public schools is down for a third consecutive year, starting off some very good news this morning, dipping 6.6% during the 24-25 academic school year. This is all according to new data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, that is NCDPI. The report presented to the North Carolina State Board of Education on February the 4th showed that fewer than 1% of the state's 1.5 million public school students committed a reportable offense. 78% of public schools had between 0 to 5 reportable offenses, which was a 1% improvement from the academic year 23-24. Around 67% of all reportable offenses were for possession of a controlled substance or possession of alcohol.
Possession of a controlled substance actually increased from the last academic year by 1.5%. A small percentage of overall incidents were violent. Crime, but assaults on school personnel did remain a significant concern. Mo Green, who is the state's superintendent of DPI of public instruction, which is an elected official or an elected position, I should say, he said in a statement: students and educators deserve a safe place to teach, learn, and grow. While there is still work to be done to address the instances of reportable criminal offenses, it is good to know that the vast majority of our schools experience a minimal amount of such acts, and that more than 99% of our public school students are not committing these acts.
It is also encouraging to see the downward trend of not only in those offenses, but also declines in suspensions and dropouts, as we know how critical being in school is to a student's success. The report builds on previous positive data from the 23-24 school year that showed a 7.5% drop in crime compared to the previous school year. There was a COVID-19 era spike in crime, violence, suspension, and possession of controlled substances in state public school classrooms. As many other statistics saw that similar COVID-19 bump. While there has been improvement, the trend lines are still concerning when viewed through a pre-pandemic lens.
The reported acts of crime and violence for the 23-24 school year were 9.3% higher than they were in 21-22. Moreover, incidents involving assault on school personnel and bomb threats also increased, even as other major categories such as possession of weapons declined. According to Bryce Fielder, who is the director of the Carolina's Academic Leadership Network, or CALEN, said the rise in assaults on school staff. staff is troubling even as other offenses have decreased. Any teacher will tell you that student discipline policies by themselves aren't enough.
They must be enforced and must be taken seriously to keep our schools a safe place for everyone involved. For the newest batch of data, the most likely offenders were students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students, as well as male students, a much higher proportion of male than female students committing some of those acts of violence. But across those same subgroups, instances of violence have decreased in the past two years, in many cases, by double digits. Dr. Michael Maher, who is DPI's chief accountability officer, said this is a picture of persistent disparity, but is also meaningful progress.
If we focus on only the levels, then we miss the trend. The report also gauged the rate of suspensions and other disciplinary actions in public schools across North Carolina. While expulsions did increase from 30 in the 23-24 school year to 34 in the 24-25 school year, fewer than 13% of all students received any type of disciplinary action, such as suspension, alternative placement for disciplinary reasons, or the most severe and extreme expulsion for inappropriate behavior. Middle school has the highest rate of suspensions, while ninth grade remains the primary risk point, according to data published by DPS. Dropouts increased at elementary and middle school levels.
They have decreased for high school students, so, some encouraging data there. Moreover, for the seventh consecutive year, there were zero reports of corporal punishment across all public school districts. In response to the trend, DPI officials say. That they plan to work towards several goals, including a targeted middle to high school transition initiative, a move designated to address data identifying ninth grade as that primary risk point for students and acting out. The department also plans to expand annual reporting to include more advanced analysis and will continue providing training to public school units on handling discipline, alternative learning, and dropout data.
You can read some additional coverage of this report from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. We've got the details, the entire report, and some additional coverage this morning over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. Just look for the story's headline: New Crime Data for NC Public Schools continues a positive trend.
Well, coming up this weekend, February the 8th, the big game taking place across the United States. Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots will battle off Sunday evening. We've got a very cool story. Over at CarolinaJournal.com, as at least 16 players on both teams have some ties to North Carolina. According to the sports website Rotowire, it ranked North Carolina number four overall top states for producing 2026 Super Bowl players after California, Texas, and Florida.
After a victory last Sunday night against the Denver Broncos, Patriots quarterback and UNC Chapel Hill alumni Drake May will make his debut on the field. A graduate of Myers Park High School in Charlotte, May married his childhood sweetheart in June of 2025, shortly after their respective graduations from Chapel Hill. May played three seasons as the quarterback for UNC in the 21, 22, and 23 college football seasons. Students at UNC are celebrating May's descent to Santa Ana, California on Sunday, one senior telling CarolinaJournal.com, it's so cool to see Drake May going to the Super Bowl. I am also from Charlotte and remember hearing so much about him and his family growing up.
Watching him play as a student at UNC was a highlight of my time at Carolina, and so it's full circle to see him now playing in the NFL. Another UNC senior by the name of Ashley Willems said her favorite memories at Carolina football or at Carolina were football games, saying game day at Carolina is incredible. And May as the quarterback made it even better. It is so crazy to see him going to the Super Bowl when he was just at UNC a few years ago. I am cheering extra loud for the Patriots this year.
May's last game at Chapel Hill was November the 11th, 2023, with a victory against Duke shortly after he declared for the 2024 NFL draft. This is only his second season as a starting quarterback for the Pats. And with that, he is going to be battling off in the biggest game of the season coming up Sunday evening. There are also plenty of other players from North Carolina. We've got a full list of those this morning.
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Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM. WBT, I'm Nick Craig. A good Friday morning to you. Over the past year, we've had a bunch of stories here on the Carolina Journal News Hour and on our website, CarolinaJournal.com, highlighting a lot of the great work coming out of the North Carolina State Auditor's Office in 2024, the general election that took place. Dave Bollick became the state auditor winning the general election against Democrat Jessica Holmes.
And since that period of time, there has been a lot going on in that office. To walk us through a recent interview that she had with the state auditor and Dave Bollock, Teresa Opaca, CarolinaJournal.com joins us on the news hour. Teresa, you and I have talked on probably a dozen or so more reports from the auditor's office looking at different state agencies and entities, spending money, lap salaries, lots of different things here. You had the opportunity to sit down with Dave Bollock last week, and he's even looking at internally some of the ongoings within the auditor's office. Tell us a little bit about your conversation with him.
Sure. Thanks, Nick, for having me this morning. Yeah, so done so many audits in the past year, and you know. Dave Wollick said, You know what? Maybe it's time we did an audit on ourselves, right?
And take a look at their own office internally. What prompted him to actually, you know, go back now that he's been in office for a little over a year was the Dave Act, that report that was put out where the other offices and agencies across the state had a report to him. This was something that the General Assembly approved, you know, where they had any vacancies, you know, all being transparent about spending. And he says that really made him, you know, say, well, we really should do this on our own office.
So, yeah, he sat down with me last week and we discussed all of that. And a little bit also about the Day Vac the audit that he came out with as well. But he said he wanted to be transparent and open with the public because the public deserves that from every agency, including the state auditor as well. Yeah, and obviously a little bit of practicing what you preach there from the state auditor's office. Speaking of that, as you would imagine, with a major leadership change in the office, switching political parties, obviously you'd want to surround yourself with individuals that you want to work with.
And the auditor's office has hired a lot of new people, a lot of new faces in the office there doing the work of the auditor's office. Yeah, so he told me when he took office, there were about 30 vacant positions. When he was sworn in in January 2025. And he said, most, if not all, were filled last summer. Three have been only open for about maybe six months or so.
In addition, the legislature gave his office an additional 45 positions under the Dave Act, of which 30 have been hired.
So, in total, there's about 79 new people that have been hired. At the time, when the state vacancy rate is slightly above 10%, so that's pretty good. Also, 40 people have been promoted as well. And as you just mentioned, you know, you want to have your own people, you know, surround yourself with who you have that trust and capability of working with you.
So he said, you know, he was taking a look at. maybe the State Human Resources Act should be examined after doing all of this. He said in restructuring his office, you know, maybe the change in leadership and allowing the leadership flexibility in the management of that office or agency should take precedence. Because he said, you know, there's people, maybe attorneys you want to hire, different people, you know, different office holders and stuff like that, that you trust. You want to fill in your own executive team and that the Human Resources Act makes it harder.
So that was one thing that came up while he was taking a look at all this. And Teresa, it's an interesting point. Obviously, yes, the state auditor position is elected. You see that on the ballot every four years. But everybody under the auditor, they are employees of the state.
They are governmental employees here in North Carolina, and there's a lot of protection for those employees. And I would imagine not just in the auditor's office, but within any office throughout the state of North Carolina, that is probably a challenge when new leadership comes in, which, as I mentioned, can happen every four years. Correct, correct. And that, you know, like he said, he wanted to take a look at that. And speaking of any changes when people come and go, there were about 22 people that did leave his office.
He did mention that. There were some that fell under retirement. And of course, he said that number was less than he expected as a change in administration as well. But when they, you know, some people didn't retire. And he called it staff shifting, basically.
They had to pay out, this is a big number, $747,000 in claims, attorneys' fees, and also other fees and costs, maybe changing positions that were not exempt to exempt. He said the previous administration non-exempted everybody, made everybody permanent and non-exempt. And except for one press, one person.
So he said, Well, so we did some staff shifting with that and moved folks from the non-exempt to exempt. As a result, they did incur those claims, but he felt it was better just to go ahead and move on, just better for the office, better for everybody in general. And he said it was just a good decision to move forward. Teresa, the vacancy rate, as you mentioned across state government, sits at about 10%. There's been some audits out recently about lapsed salaries, which deal with some of these longtime vacant positions.
And there's no question about it. The current job market is tricky. It's tough. There's a lot going on that is not necessarily relevant to what might be going on in a state or a local agency. A lot of that is coming and kind of trickling down from Washington, D.C.
And it's not very often that we talk about government bringing forward innovative ideas, but it seemed like early on in Dave Bollock's time in office, he brought this idea forward that, hey, we need a recruiter. We've got all of these positions open. We've got these vacancies. We need somebody that is actively going out and trying to recruit the best and brightest talent for the state auditor's office. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
That was a very wise choice on his part. He turned an administrative position into that recruitment role. And as a result, the recruiter has gone to about 65 university and local employment events to recruit additional staff.
So, I mean, that really paid off because it did help them bring in more people. And we are talking about recruitment that also comes from internships. When he came into office, there were zero interns.
Now they have about 10 on a floating basis. And it ranges from people who are law school students to accountants, those getting their MBAs.
So, yeah, it did a lot of different things when it comes to recruiting new talent. Also, another way they're recruiting new talent very shortly, they're going to be reopening an office in Charlotte. They have seven staff members right now scheduled to work there with plans to hire up to Who all comes said and done, 12 people will be working there. And he said the Charlotte office is just a logical choice because you've got really so many financial centers there doing business, Bank of America, people, financial professionals who live in that area who may not work in the office in Raleigh. They want to stay put in Charlotte.
They like the area.
So he said it was just, you know, a no-brainer, as you will, to hire these people. And what he's going to be doing, especially from the beginning, is going down there on the train twice a month, you know, going down there and working from there. And that's in addition to offices they have across the state in Asheville, Kernersville, Greenville, and Wilmington.
So, yeah, different recruitment in all different areas, ranging from the new Charlotte office to, you know, interns and just turning that position around, going to different hiring events. It was a great idea. Yeah. And Teresa, this is obviously great news. You lay out this, but.
I think everybody would assume, oh, of course, this is very logical, right? We see this in private business all the time. Many, even medium-sized businesses, have somebody that spends maybe half of their time working on recruitment, working on getting new talent in there, going to job fairs, trying to get people to walk in the doors and work for their company. It is a little disappointing that a position like this didn't already exist within the state auditor's office, maybe some other state agencies as well. We're not just talking about 15 people.
This is a very large division within state government here in North Carolina. Yeah, it really makes you wonder. You know, what if other agencies, you know, obviously it's state auditors, you know, role, that office did not have this position.
So what other agencies and offices don't have this as well? And maybe that would be something worth taking a look at. We know that Governor Stein talked yesterday about during a press conference about different vacancies for hiring for mental health and for me for state correctional positions and other positions across the state. Maybe these agencies should also take a look at that as well. That would be a good idea.
Teresa, you've already mentioned it, but I really want to harp in on this. The state auditor ran a very lengthy statewide campaign, both in the primary and in the general election. He harped a lot on transparency. That is, of course, part of the job as the state auditor, but it isn't very refreshing to see that he's willing to turn that spotlight in on himself and the individuals that he has surrounded himself with in the office and essentially lead by example. Yes, you know, he definitely wanted to do that.
Also, another way he's doing that is having the state auditor's office, they have the internal budget dashboard that's right up there on the website. And you can click a link to it in our article as well. It has all the different budget items that could be found on there. He wants to be transparent and accountable with the public. He said, you know, it's a different day in the auditor's office, and I think we've proven that.
He also said there's a lot more to do, and they're getting better and better. He said a lot more reports are going to be coming out, so stay tuned for that.
Some things they've already talked about in the past, the different foresights, Winston-Salem schools is one area. Also, the State Lottery Commission, he did tell me that's another one that stay tuned for that as well. They're going to expand on that. He says, So I do feel like leadership in the office is all coming together, and all the members of his office are coming together around a purpose. Which he says is transparency and accountability of public funds.
Yeah, and it is great to see. And, you know, looking at state auditors in the past, it is amazing, truly, what can come out of this office in comparison to what we've seen in years prior. Teresa, again, you had the opportunity to sit down with Dave Bullock and chat with him. You've got a bunch of direct quotes directly from the man himself. Where can folks go and get those details this morning?
Sure, they can head on over to CarolinaJournal.com. We appreciate the update. Teresa Opeka joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Uh oh. You're still grooving, still connecting, still loving, still turning up, still thriving.
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Some of those made their way here to North Carolina. Chapel Hill was the epicenter of some of those protests here in North Carolina.
Some students were banned from the campus of Chapel Hill for that. There's been legal challenges that have been playing out over the last year or so in the court system. We've got a pretty significant update on that this morning to give us some of the backstory and walk us through the most recent details out of the courts. Mitch Kokai from the John Locke Foundation joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Mitch, hard to believe that this was back in 2024.
All these stories, the ones here in North Carolina and around the rest of the nation, they received an incredible amount of news attention. What's the latest that you're following here in North Carolina?
Well, some significant developments, Nick, in a lawsuit that was filed after UNC authorities dismantled a tent encampment that was right there in the middle of campus in late April of 2024 as part of protests tied to a group called Students for Justice in Palestine.
So. The university decided, after giving a fair warning, plenty of warning, that they were going to shut down this tent encampment that was covering up the main quad on campus. And as it happened, some people didn't want to leave. They ended up getting arrested. And after those arrests for trespass, A handful of people, some one professor and some students.
All got banned from campus and they ended up filing a lawsuit. And there were a couple of things that the lawsuit focused on. One was the ban and whether that was constitutional, blocking people from being in what is largely a public gathering area and one that's often used for First Amendment protest purposes. That was one piece of it. And the other piece of it was the way in which they were arrested.
A couple of the people said that they were mishandled. One person got bruises from the way she was handcuffed. Another said that she, who had a cane, said she was her cane was knocked out of her hand and she was knocked to the ground and she suffered some injuries.
So, so basically, two pieces of this lawsuit that was filed. That suit was filed about a year after everything had happened in 2024. The university responded by saying the lawsuit should be dismissed. The people who were the plaintiffs also asked for an injunction. In 2025, saying that the ban should end because they should be allowed to participate in protests favoring the Palestinians on the UNC Chapel Hill campus.
Now, as things move forward, there are originally five plaintiffs. One dropped out. Another one is still in the suit, but basically has had all of her issues basically resolved as of January. She had been a student on leave from UNC when she was banned, but is now re-enrolled at UNC. And so the campus police have said, well, you're a student, so we're not going to ban you from campus.
So that piece of it is up. The remaining three people were not. UNC students or staff. You had a Duke professor, a Duke student, and a Meredith College student who all faced these bans.
So roughly, Nine, ten months after there was a request for an injunction, the judge who's overseeing this case decided to come out with a pair of orders, lengthy orders. One was 27 pages, the other about 55, 56 pages. Wow. In the smaller order, He dealt with the injunction and basically said, yes, these three plaintiffs who are remaining who are still banned from campus, there should be an injunction blocking that ban. And basically the argument was that the university didn't really give an adequate description of why these particular people were banned and gave them no opportunity within two years to even challenge the ban.
And so he basically blocked the ban and said they're able to come back on the UNC campus during the course of the rest of this litigation. That was one piece of it. The other piece was addressing the larger lawsuit and how much of it could move forward. There were a bunch of different claims made. And the judge has decided to go along with the university's request to dismiss.
Various pieces of the suit, but various pieces also can move forward.
So there were claims that dealt with First Amendment violations that were thrown out, but there are some things that can move forward in the suit. One of them, That the plaintiffs were victims of First Amendment viewpoint discrimination because the argument is made that other protesters have not been treated the same way that they have.
So there was that. There's also the idea that in terms of the way they were arrested, A battery and excessive force, those particular claims could go forward against the campus police.
So, while some pieces of the suit have been thrown out, some remain in effect. And the bottom line for these plaintiffs, if they want to come back to the UNC campuses, they can. They are not banned as of this ruling that's come out of U.S. District Court. Mitch, is this an interesting story?
Obviously, there's a bunch of factors that make it interesting. Is this an interesting story? Because we're talking about a public university. We're talking about an institution that, for all intents and purposes, as you noted, does have a lot of public gathering spaces. You don't have to be a Chapel Hill student to visit Chapel Hill or any other UNC school across the state of North Carolina.
That is a major factor in this because one of the things that's argued is the place where this tent encampment was was Polk Place on the UNC campus. And for folks who are not familiar with the Chapel Hill campus, that is really the main quad that leads from the administration building down to the Wilson Library. There are academic buildings on all sides. And this is a place where people gather all the time. If you and I wanted to go to UNC Chapel Hill and visit it, we would be able to walk through Polk Place without doing anything special.
And it's often a place where people gather to protest or to just hang out and read or do other things. This is a public gathering place at a public institution. This would be very different if you were talking about something happening at Duke or Davidson or Wake Forest, a private campus where the university has a lot more leeway on who they can let in and let out. And I think the main thing. that seem to have Influenced the judge in his decision was that there wasn't really anything spelled out about why these particular plaintiffs were treated differently than other people who were involved in the same protest who were allowed to come back and participate in protests again.
Now, one thing he did say is that you're not allowed just to hang out in tents. And do whatever you want. The university did say there was a safety concern. The university did offer plenty of warning that these tents were going to be shut down. And so the fact that trespassing charges were filed, that was not something that's going to be able to move forward in the lawsuit because the lawsuit had said it was an unlawful prosecution, unlawful arrest.
And the judge said, no, there's nothing to that because the arrests were lawful. Another piece of this that's important to note is that the Orange County DA's office ended up throwing out all of the trespass charges that were filed against anyone in connection with this, which I think was another factor in the judge saying, well, the campus ban. Doesn't seem to have a great justification for it now since all of the charges were thrown out. But this really does have a lot to do, as you suggested, with the fact that this is a public campus and a place for a lot of public discussion and a lot of exercise of the First Amendment and not just. By students, staff, and faculty at UNC.
A lot of members of the community will turn out for these types of protests, which is why, even though these three plaintiffs are not associated directly with UNC, I think the judge saw that there was some merit in allowing them to have this injunction because they are members of the public, even though they don't have a direct tie to UNC Chapel Hill. Mitch, I want to test your legal knowledge here. This cannot be the first time that non-students or non-faculty have been banned from a UNC campus here across the entire state of North Carolina. Are you familiar with any other cases? I mean, I find this almost hard to believe that this is the first time this is being tested here in 2026.
No, there have been bans in the past, and sometimes there have been bans that have been held up because there has been something that a person has done that Makes them a candidate for being banned because they've done something, they've committed a crime, or they've been involved in some illegal activity where the university says, Well, we should be able to keep this person off the campus. Probably the most famous ban in the history of UNC Chapel Hill was the so-called speaker ban during the era when they wanted to keep communists from speaking on campus. And one thing that happened during that era was that a communist speaker ended up coming to Franklin Street, standing on the sidewalk while a bunch of people were sitting on campus listening to him from the sidewalk. And so these types of bans tend to be difficult to enforce because you're talking about a very large open area that people could get to easily. You don't have Law enforcement officers at every entry point into the UNC campus.
But yes, this is not the first time that you've had people banned. I think the interesting piece of this was the fact that these particular plaintiffs say they were being treated differently from others who were involved in that same protest. Because most of the other people who were involved in the protests, even if they had been arrested for trespassing, The trespassing charges were gone. They were allowed to come back, especially if they were students or staff. I mean, they had to be there anyway.
And these plaintiffs said that they were treated differently and thought that was an amendment, a violation of their First Amendment rights. Mitch, do you have any indication this morning that Chapel Hill is going to continue to fight this, maybe appeal some of these decisions from the federal judge on this? Where do you think they kind of shake out in all of this? We've had no indication of what's going to happen next. My guess is they probably are not going to fight the ban because.
The details of the ban were that you had to be, you had to wait at least two years before you would be able to challenge the ban, and we're almost there. I mean, this incident happened in April of 2024. The ban, I don't think, immediately took place, but it certainly took place at some point in the spring of 2024. And we're only a few months away from when the people who had been banned would have been able to go back to campus police and asked to have that ban revoked. It was interesting that the request for the preliminary injunction in this case wasn't quite a year ago, but it was back in the spring of 2025, not too long after the case was filed in March of 2025.
And the judge waited. Not quite a year, but really in the neighborhood of nine, ten months before making a decision. And the ban had already been in place for almost a year by that point.
So it was almost two years before the judge decided to act on the injunction. And so my guess is the university thinks, well, we probably would have let these people back in anyway.
So why fight the ban?
Now they still will continue to fight the lawsuit. And it's entirely possible that they will appeal the judge's ruling on that because certainly they're going to say that the campus police officers should have immunity from the arrests that have taken place. And in terms of the Complaint that is allowed to go forward against the university officials on the other front, the retaliation and the viewpoint discrimination, they will certainly try to see, I should say certainly, but I would expect that they would want to see a higher court weigh in on that and say whether that's something the university can face a lawsuit over or whether it's something that should be dismissed. It's definitely a very interesting legal challenge. We appreciate the update and the information this morning.
You can read some additional coverage this morning over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. Mitch Kokai from the John Locke Foundation joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. It's 5.56. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour on Charlotte's FM News Talk 107.9 WBT coming up on Monday. It is going to be an interesting day in the North Carolina General Assembly as Charlotte officials are expected to appear in front of the House Select Committee on Oversight and Reform.
That is coming up Monday, February the 9th. They are going to be asked questions from state lawmakers about rising crime and public safety concerns that exist across the Queen City. We will highlight what we can expect on that coming up Monday morning, and we'll be walking you through all of the details from that committee meeting coming up Tuesday morning right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour. That's going to do it for a Friday edition. WBT News is next, followed by Good Morning BT.
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