A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the city of greensboro to disclose limited personnel information concerning the disposition of disciplinary charges against a police officer to a board or committee designated by the city council to provide citizen review of the police disciplinary process.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑168(c), as amended in Section 1 of S.L. 2001‑20 and applicable to the City of Greensboro only, reads as rewritten:
"(c)	All information contained in a city employee's personnel file, other than the information made public by subsection (b) of this section, is confidential and shall be open to inspection only in the following instances:
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(8)	In order to facilitate citizen review of the police disciplinary process, the city manager or the chief of police, or their designees, may release the disposition of disciplinary charges against a police officer and the facts relied upon in determining that disposition to any board or committee designated by the city council to provide citizen review of the police disciplinary process, and the city manager, chief of police, or their designees, and the board or committee may release the disposition of the disciplinary charges and the facts relied upon in determining that disposition to the person alleged to have been aggrieved by the officer's actions or to that person's survivor. The members of the board or committee shall maintain as confidential all personnel information released to them under this subdivision that is not a matter of public record under this section, and any member who violates that confidentiality is guilty of the violations set forth in subsections (e) and (f) of this section. Each member of the board or committee shall execute and adhere to a confidentiality agreement that is satisfactory to the city. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "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 Greensboro Police Department."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the City of Greensboro only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.