RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s redistricting process, which got formally underway this week, will be less transparent due to a change in state open records law Republican lawmakers added to the state budget with little public notice.
That change removes a long-standing state law that made public redistricting documents, from draft maps to emails that lawmakers send about the process of drawing election lines, once the maps are final.
It was part of a larger shift in North Carolina open records laws that budget writers dropped into this year’s spending plan, exempting General Assembly members from those laws and leaving it up to individual General Assembly members what records to release.
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