MATTER OF CUSTODIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

No. COA22-446.

884 S.E.2d 455 (2023)

In the MATTER OF CUSTODIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RECORDINGS Sought by: APG-East LLC d/b/a "The Daily Advance"; Scripps Broadcast Holdings, LLC d/b/a WTKR-TV and WGNT-TV; Capital Broadcasting Company, Inc." d/b/a WRAL-TV; The McClatchy Company, LLC d/b/a "The News and Observer" and "The Charlotte Observer"; Carolina Public Press, Inc. d/b/a "Carolina Public Press"; Grey Media Group, Inc. d/b/a WBTV, WECT and WITN; WUNC, LLC d/b/a "WUNC-FM"; DTH Media Co. d/b/a "The Daily Tarheel"; Nexstar Media, Inc. d/b/a "WAVY-TV and "WVBT-TV"; Cable News Network, Inc. d/b/a "CNN"; WTVD Television, LLC d/b/a WTVD-ABC11; The Associated Press; WP Company, LLC d/b/a "The Washington Post"; Charter Communications d/b/a "Spectrum News"; Chatham Media Group, LLC d/b/a "Chatham News + Record"; and Gannett Co., Inc. d/b/a "Wilmington Star News" and "USA Today", The New York Times Co. d/b/a The New York Times, Media Convergence Group, d/b/a Newsy Court TV Media, LLC d/b/a Court TV, Petitioners.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed February 7, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych, PLLC, by Michael J. Tadych , Karen M. Rabenau , Raleigh, Hugh Stevens , C. Amanda Martin , Raleigh, and Elizabeth J. Soja , for Petitioners-Appellants.

No brief filed for Respondent-Appellee.


Petitioners, twenty media entities, appeal from Judge Tillett's order dismissing their joint motion for release of custodial law enforcement agency recordings pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 132-1.4A(g). Petitioners contend that the trial court misconstrued the law applicable to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 132-1.4A(g), and therefore...

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