Dan Way writes for Carolina Journal:
North Carolina’s clerks of Superior Court are countering criticism from State Auditor Beth Wood over a failure to correct ongoing problems.
“We emphatically deny that any clerk has or will refuse to correct identified serious problems,” Steven Cogburn, Buncombe County Clerk of Superior Court and president of the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, wrote in a letter to Wood.
Previous audits identified the problems.
Although a “chronic problem” exists in clerks’ offices stemming from staff shortages, it’s a condition the General Assembly must remedy by providing additional resources, Cogburn said.
Read more about the ongoing dispute here.
