Above the law?
The Carolina Plott Hound publisher Paul Chesser, a contributor to Watchdog.org, wonders what North Carolina State University is hiding in refusing to hand over documents sought through a public records request:
North Carolina State University officials denied two requests for public records about work performed by professors, claiming state law allows them to withhold the documents because the employees’ work was conducted in their roles as private consultants.
The requests were turned down despite the fact that professor Robert Handfield, a professor of supply-chain management in NCSU’s Poole College of Management, used NCSU letterhead for correspondence with his client, also a government agency. His colleague, Michael Cobb, associate professor of political science in the NCSU School of International and Public Affairs, used his official NCSU email address to elicit correspondence for his project. …
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