Columbus County’s handling of public records “evinces a pattern of ongoing and willful defiance of our state’s transparency laws.”
Carli Brosseau
Carli Brosseau is a K-12 education reporter for The Assembly. She previously worked at The News & Observer, where she was an investigative reporter and a ProPublica Local Reporting Network fellow.
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