A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT allowing the city of wilmington to disclose limited personnel information concerning the disposition of disciplinary charges against police officers.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Article IX of the Charter of the City of Wilmington, being Chapter 495 of the 1977 Session Laws, is hereby amended by adding a new section to read:
"Section 9.7. Personnel Records.
(a)	Notwithstanding G.S. 160A‑168, in order to facilitate citizen review of the police disciplinary process, the city manager or the chief of police may release the disposition of disciplinary charges against a police officer and the facts relied upon in determining the disposition to the person alleged to have been aggrieved by the officer's actions or to that person's survivor and to any board or commission designated by city council to review the police disciplinary process. Members of such board or commission shall maintain as confidential all personnel information to which they gain access as a member of such board or commission. Each member of such board or commission shall execute and adhere to a Confidentiality Agreement that is satisfactory to the City. For purposes of this subsection, the 'disposition of disciplinary charges' includes determinations that the charges are sustained, not sustained, unfounded, exonerated, classified as an information file, or classified as any other disciplinary disposition category subsequently adopted by the City. In the event that a council designated board or commission hears an appeal of a police disciplinary case, the disposition of the case, as defined in this subsection, as well as the facts and circumstances of the case, may be released by the city manager or the chief of police to any person whose presence is necessary to the appeals hearing as determined by the chief of police.
(b)	Notwithstanding G.S. 160A‑168, the portion of a video or audiotape produced by a mobile video recorder (MVR) in a police department vehicle which recorded an event resulting in a citizen complaint against a police officer may be reviewed by the person alleged to have been aggrieved by the officer's actions."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.