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The Lesser Known Legislation Of 2016

North Carolina legislative building
Dave DeWitt
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WUNC
N.C. General Assembly

​North Carolina's House Bill 2 and the state budget dominated the headlines during this year's legislative short session. But the bills that got less attention could also have a huge impact across the state.

One of them places regulations on the footage caught by police body cameras, and declares those tapes are not public records. That same bill also establishes the first statewide needle exchange program.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC capitol reporter Jorge Valencia about the lesser known pieces of legislation that made their way through the General Assembly this year.

Will Michaels is WUNC's Weekend Host and Reporter.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.