As students across North Carolina make preparations to begin the school year, the State Highway Patrol is requesting the motoring public to keep safe travel a top priority. More than 14,000 school buses will be hitting the roadways, transporting over 790,000 children to and from school. With this in mind, motorists are encouraged to plan for delays as congestion is to be expected during the morning and afternoon commute.
Press Releases
WHAT: Convocation for the start of the third year of the N.C. Field Minister Program
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Nash Correctional Institution Gymnasium
2869 U.S. 64 Alt., Nashville, NC 27856
An offender at Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor died on Aug. 18 in an apparent suicide.
WHAT: N.C. Prison Reform Advisory Board Meeting
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, Aug. 20, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
WHERE: Governor’s Crime Commission, Room 100, 1201 Front St., Raleigh
In the wake of multiple recent mass shooting incidents across the country and less than four months since the tragic school shooting at UNC Charlotte, Gov. Roy Cooper and his public safety team convened state leaders in education, public safety, public health and criminal justice today in Greensboro to learn the latest information on initiatives aimed at protecting North Carolina schools from senseless acts of mass violence.
WHAT: Quarterly meeting of the State Reentry Council Collaborative (SRCC). The SRCC was established by the North Carolina General Assembly and Governor Roy Cooper in 2017 and is managed by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. The SRCC is made up of representatives from across state and local government whose agency responsibilities intersect with the incarceration or reentry process for people in North Carolina.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Back to School Safety Summit on Monday focuses on school safety initiatives
A collaborative discussion on school safety initiatives will take place in Greensboro next week, sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
On the morning of July 22, Trooper Chris Wooten was seriously injured as a result of a motor vehicle collision that occurred near the intersection of Tuckaseegee Road and Edgewood Road in Charlotte. Since the crash, Wooten has been hospitalized, receiving around-the-clock care due to the serious nature of his injuries.
NC Emergency Management joined forces last week with the Charlotte Fire Department and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency for the 4th annual Disaster Communications School.
Hundreds of gauges are situated near streams and rivers across North Carolina to provide real-time data on stream elevation, rainfall and weather parameters – and now municipalities can “adopt” these gauges, in similar fashion to the well-known “Adopt-A-Highway program. These gauges, which are operated by N.C. Emergency Management (NCEM), local government agencies, private organizations and the U.S. Geological Survey, all feed information into the Flood Inundation Mapping and Alert Network (FIMAN). Gauge data is also provided to the National Weather Service to aid in their rain and flood