cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/54017921

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Beginning October 1st registration stickers on your license plate will no longer be required and the state will no longer provide a paper copy of your registration. You will be able to download/print a PDF of your registration, or you can get a paper copy from the state for a $5 fee, but they’re not really necessary now that all police cars have computers that can look up registration details. Eliminating the stickers and paper registrations will save the state $4.8 million each year. Drivers are of course still required to pay for the registration and property taxes annually, and must complete an emissions and safety inspection prior to renewing registration (although the state is working with the federal government to remove the emissions inspection requirement from all counties except Mecklenburg).

The issue first got widespread attention in late July when Republican state Rep. Erin Paré posted online about “the hiring of a transgender biological male, who dresses as a woman music teacher, in one of our local elementary schools.” Paré floated the idea of “requiring gender-appropriate professional attire for public school employees.”

This is a wild story. TL;DR: it’s a love triangle. The woman was with the trooper initially but then she started living with the sheriff’s deputy instead. Recently (relatively) she left the deputy and returned to the trooper. Sounds like each man was jealous of the other. Deputy asked the woman to come over to talk, she initially agreed but changed her mind, and also stopped responding to him. He threatened to come over and cause a scene of she didn’t talk to him. When he showed up they argued in the yard and the trooper shot the deputy as the deputy advanced on them.

The N&O is not identifying the woman because she is allegedly a victim of domestic violence, but they also mention that she’s the sister of the current head of the State Highway Patrol, which seems pretty identifying for anyone who knows her.

The SBI is handling the investigation, although the State Highway Patrol is also conducting their own investigation. The North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys is handling the case at the request of the Cumberland County District Attorney and has appointed a former prosecutor from Wake and Durham counties as Special Prosecutor.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/51167186

CORNELIUS, N.C. — A sheriff’s deputy is in fair condition after being pulled from his patrol car by bystanders following a crash in Cornelius Wednesday afternoon.

According to the Sheriff’s Department, the deputy was attempting to avoid a crash when the collision occurred.

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Sheriff deputy was possibly responding to a call, tho it has not been confirmed, when he almost collided with a woman making a left turn. Deputy attempted to avoid her, but she swerved in the same direction and they collided. Woman got knocked into a tree, sheriff deputy got knocked into parking lot of a veterinary clinic, totaling 3 parked vehicles, and collided with a tree.

Staff of the veterinary clinic heard the commotion and went outside to check it out. Woman in the car was ok, Sheriff deputy was injured and bags fully deployed. His vehicle appeared to catch fire so staff broke the window and pulled him from the vehicle taking him into the veterinary clinic for triage while they waited for paramedics. Luckily one of the techs present was familiar with human medicine and was able to treat the injured deputy. The sheriff deputy is reportedly stable.

first madison cawthorn and now this... stay classy district 11

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49983979

The new complex near the Virginia border signals that even as ICE has retreated from its plan to buy warehouses, the agency remains determined to increase its detention capacity.

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Internal documents obtained by The New York Times show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to open a detention center at the complex in northeastern North Carolina by the end of the year. The facility is owned by GEO Group, one of the largest private prison operators in the country. Contract negotiations are ongoing, but the documents show that the facility will have about 1,400 beds, making it among the largest detention centers on the East Coast.

The opening of the facility — the first of its kind in North Carolina — signals that even as ICE has been retreating from its plan to buy up warehouses around the country, it remains determined to increase its capacity for detaining people as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

Documents obtained by The Times in June show that ICE plans to offload seven warehouses that it bought for more than $700 million, scaling back a signature initiative under the previous homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. The Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Pennsylvania officials this month saying that it no longer planned to use a warehouse in Berks County.

But it continues to partner with private companies like GEO Group to repurpose existing prison complexes in places like North Carolina, Colorado and Arizona, all of which have large immigrant populations.

The agency has to find bed space in places that are perceived as “more friendly” toward such facilities and do not prohibit them, said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former ICE official who has served in Republican and Democratic administrations.

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North Carolina, which has a powerful Republican-controlled legislature, also recently passed laws that require sheriffs and state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE, which is likely to increase the need for capacity.

The Winton facility is poised to make North Carolina a major hub for ICE detentions along the East Coast, said Stefanía Arteaga, the co-founder of Carolina Migrant Network, an immigrant rights group.

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Local activists have begun to mobilize against the facility, organizing protests and flooding county officials with questions. Bobby Ray Riddick, who retired years ago and used to work at a chicken processing plant, is one of them, with 10,000 followers on Facebook.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/66632671