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NCACC Page 4 of 6 Repeal public employee personnel record changes — Repeal HB 961. Seek legislation that will better clarify issues regarding privacy of public employee personnel records and release of other public records. Protect privacy of citizen email notification and distribution lists — Seek legislation to protect the privacy of email notification and distribution lists of citizens who have requested electronic communication with their local governments. Modernize public records retention — Seek legislation to modernize public records retention to permit records storage in digital format. Support Rural Transportation Planning Organizations (RPOs) — Support legislation to maintain the funding for rural transportation planning organizations (RPOs). Reform workers' compensation — Support legislation to reform North Carolina's workers' compensation system to reduce disability findings and open -ended streams of payment, to address the trend in favor of long -term disability findings, to diminish control over these findings on the part of claimants and their legal representatives, and to curtail adoption of rules that limit return -to -work efforts. Oppose contributory negligence tort reform — Oppose tort reform legislation that would overburden county budgetary constraints, unfairly shift fault to counties, or increase demand for court facilities. Promote utilization of 911 centers by protecting confidentiality — Seek legislation to promote the reporting of criminal activity by protecting the confidentiality of callers by using either transcripts or voice - altered recordings to prevent recognition and to make appropriate amendments to public records laws. Justice and Public Safety Protect county jail system • Seek legislation to protect the fiscal viability of the county jail system by reinstating the reimbursement rate for state inmates housed in county jails and increasing the reimbursement rate for state inmates awaiting post -trial prison transfer. • Oppose legislation to increase time counties are mandated to house state misdemeanants. Improve inmate medical care cost containment — Seek legislation that would authorize medical care providers to charge the state and counties no more than the rates set in the Medicaid or Medicare schedule of charges for inmate medical care. Maintain funding for gang prevention and adolescent substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment programs. Allow court facility fee flexibility — Seek legislation to allow counties to collect additional fees to support specialty courts and help fund capital, operational and other needs associated with increasing demands on our judicial system. Authorize inmate electronic monitoring cost reimbursement — Seek legislation to authorize counties to seek reimbursement from defendants for electronic monitoring, based on ability to pay. http:// www. ncacc. org /legistativegoals_2011- 12.html 1/27/2012 Page 152