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2008 North Carolina Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2008)

handle is hein.sag/sagnc0045 and id is 1 raw text is: State of North Carolina
Department of Justice
ROY COOPFER                      PO Box 629
ATTORNFY GENERAL
Raleigh, North Carolina  REPLY TO: Grayson G. Kelley
27602                    (919) 716-6400
FAX:   (919)716-0135
February 5, 2008
The Honorable Tony Rand
North Carolina Senate
300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 300-C
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
The Honorable David W. Hoyle
North Carolina Senate
300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 300-A
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
Re: Advisory Opinion: Confidentiality of Retirement Benefit Information;
Session Law 2007-508
Dear Senator Rand and Senator Hoyle:
I am responding to your request to Attorney General Roy Cooper for our opinion as
to the proper interpretation of certain provisions of Session Law 2007-508 (Senate Bill
1546). Specifically, you have asked whether statutory amendments enacted by the
General Assembly in this legislation made information concerning retirement benefits a part
of the confidential information in a state employee's personnel file and not subject to public
inspection or examination.
Senate Bill 1546, entitled An Act to Clarify the Public's Access to Public Employee
Personnel Records and to Make Changes to the Law Pertaining to Confidentiality of
Competitive Health Care Information, was ratified by the General Assembly on August 2,
2007, signed by the Governor on August 30, 2007, and subsequently codified as Session
Law 2007-508. In general, the legislation amended various statutes governing the
personnel records of public employees by extending the information required to be open
for public inspection to the terms of employment contracts and instead by expanding the
definition of public salary information to include benefits, incentives, bonuses, deferred
compensation and all other forms of compensation. Statutes applying to employees of
local boards of education, community colleges, mental health authorities, public health
authorities, counties, cities, water and sewer authorities and the State were amended in

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