RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A judge has decided that former North Carolina football coach Butch Davis won't have to release records of personal calls from his own cellphone, which he had used to conduct job duties.
In a memo to attorneys for both sides Thursday, Superior Court Judge Howard E. Manning Jr. granted Davis' request for a protective order preventing that personal information from being made public.
However, Manning wrote that public officials can't use personal phones to "evade" the state's public records laws and said an "eyes-only review by counsel" of the job-related calls in the records is "reasonable."
It's unclear whether those records would be reviewed by just the attorneys or the media outlets involved in a public-records fight with the university regarding information about the NCAA's investigation of the football program.
