Alamance judges clarify that journalists won t be barred from court due to COVID-19 Carli Brosseau, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Dec. 19 A week after three news organizations asked the North Carolina Court of Appeals to force Alamance County courts to let in journalists, the top local judges announced a new media access policy.
Reporters must request permission in advance to attend hearings, and up to five journalists will be allowed in, depending on the available space, D. Thomas Lambeth Jr., Judicial District 15A s senior resident superior court judge, and Bradley Reid Allen Sr., the chief district court judge, said in an order dated Dec. 18.
2020/12/20 02:40 GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) Judges in North Carolina have announced new procedures for reporters to access hearings less than two weeks after a newspaper publisher was handcuffed and ordered out of a courtroom. The News & Observer reports that Alamance County judges announced the policy after the newspaper and two other news outlets, the Alamance News and Triad City Beat, asked the North Carolina Court of Appeals to force the courts to let in journalists. Friday s order by the judges says reporters must request permission in advance to attend hearings, and up to five journalists will be allowed in a courtroom.
Dear Alamance: Cut the Shit, Sincerely INDY
Alamance County Courthouse
But when Boneyâthe white-haired publisher of the conservative-leaning
Alamance Newsâtried to cover a local court case, the judge demanded that he leave. Moments later, bailiffs cuffed the bespectacled publisher and forced him out of the building. They werenât gentle about it, either.
Weâve been watching heavy-handed and racist law enforcement practices unfolding publicly in Alamance County for years now. In 2020, itâs become the stateâs epicenter of unbridled white supremacist rage, as well as the site of massive and persistent resistance to that status quo. Given this backdrop, itâs hard not to see Judge Fred Wilkinsâ decision to bar Boney and reporters from
With Christmas near and a New Year beckoning, we at the NC Local News Workshop celebrate the many ways local journalists and media helped people in our state understand and navigate unprecedented challenges in 2020.
In the year of COVID-19, we’ve seen North Carolina residents actively involved in local democracy in countless ways, including high levels of election participation, protests, community responses to the pandemic, and initiatives to address racial inequity.
Our local journalists and media organizations have worked ceaselessly, and often in creative and inventive ways, to inform their communities, even as they faced their own hardships, financial challenges, and family stresses.
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