NCPRO Newsletter for February 5th, 2019

Dear NC PRO users,

We know that you’re all busy and probably receive too many emails, so we promise to keep these messages infrequent and brief. We just wanted to quickly bring you up to date on a few changes and developments happening with NC PRO.

  1. New Prosecutorial District Numbers: Effective January 1, 2019, the legislature made significant changes to the way that the prosecutorial districts in our state are organized and numbered. The IT staff here at the School of Government have just rolled out a change that should automatically update the district numbers for most NC PRO users whose numbers have changed. However, if you already changed your district number manually, or if you are in a district where the counties have been divided among more than one new district (e.g., former 9A is now split between 11 and 22), the new district number listed on your profile may not be correct. Please log into NC PRO, click on “My Account” on the top menu bar to review your profile, and click “Edit Profile” if you need to make any changes.
  2. Over Halfway There: There are now more than 375 registered users on NC PRO. That’s well over half the prosecutors in North Carolina. Since its launch in October, NC PRO has been viewed thousands of times by people in over 40 states. As a reminder, most of the basic legal entries in NC PRO are visible to anyone, but only registered and logged-in prosecutors can: (i) see and post comments; (ii) view or upload motions and briefs; and (iii) access the Prosecutor Directory. If any of your colleagues haven’t registered yet, please encourage them to do so, but remember that users must be currently employed as a district attorney, assistant district attorney, attorney general, assistant attorney general, or an attorney with the Conference of DA’s to create or maintain an account.
  3. Upload a Brief: Thanks to Special Deputy Attorney General Danielle Marquis Elder for allowing us to upload and share a great collection of sample motions and briefs she put together. Thanks as well to the other prosecutors (Seth Edwards, Edgar Page, David Spence, Marty Courtney, Kimberly Overton Spahos, and others) who have uploaded sample documents to share with logged-in users around the state. As the collection of sample motions and briefs on NC PRO continues to grow more robust and diverse, we think this will become an extremely useful and time-saving resource for prosecutors.

    If you haven’t uploaded anything yet, please do! As a special bonus, every person who uploads a sample motion or brief before February 28, 2019 (as well as those prosecutors who have already contributed), will be entered to win one of three rare and precious items of School of Government swag...

We’ll announce the winners in our next email. And finally...

  1. We’re Listening: The whole purpose of NC PRO is to help prosecutors do their job quickly, effectively, and correctly. We update the site on a near-daily basis to make revisions and incorporate amended statutes and new cases, but if you have any other suggestions about improving the website or the material, we’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to send an email to Jonathan Holbrook at jholbrook@sog.unc.edu. Alternatively, if you see a particular entry that needs updating or correcting, just click the “Flag for Update” banner at the top of the entry and you can submit your comments directly through the site.

Thanks again for signing up and using NC PRO, and have a great February.