{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-126-28","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 126-28","heading":"Penalty for examining, copying, etc., confidential file without authority.","body":"Any person, not specifically authorized by G.S. 126-24 to have access to a personnel file designated as confidential by this Article, who shall knowingly and willfully examine in its official filing place, remove or copy any portion of a confidential personnel file shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and upon conviction shall only be fined in the discretion of the court but not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00). (1975, c. 257, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 935; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)","path":["Chapter 126. North Carolina Human Resources Act.","Article 7. The Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_126/GS_126-28.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:19:57Z","sha256":"5a9aadfa7a0c92db820ba4ba9b479b1fd3a059585eb96d107bdb190ed5a51fc5","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-126-27","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-126-29"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}