With a New Year comes new changes. This year the Emergency Management Act as gone through some of its own changes after about a decade since the last revisions. Here I will lay out the changes that became effective on … Read more

Help! New development has outpaced our water and sewer capacity! There’s a high impact industry talking about locating in our community, and the land use is not addressed in our ordinance! What’s a community to do? Can we hit the … Read more

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (ARP/CSLFRF) program provides significant funding to all North Carolina counties and municipalities. As detailed in previous posts, this federal grant program groups allowable expenditures of these … Read more

On Friday, UNC Chapel Hill announced that Aimee Wall will be the next dean of the UNC School of Government. Aimee is passionate for the School’s mission and committed to public service. She has been working with North Carolina public … Read more

Yesterday, I published a Q&A for covered entities on the HIPAA “Right of Access” provision. In this post, I will discuss the Right of Access Initiative, which was announced in 2019 by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the … Read more

Under the HIPAA “Right of Access” provision, entities that are subject to HIPAA are required to provide patients with access to their health information upon request, in a timely manner, and at a reasonable cost. Failure to meet these requirements … Read more