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OVERCRIMINALIZATION

North Carolina’s lack of a streamlined, comprehensive, and orderly criminal code creates costly system inefficiencies, potential for unfairness, and risk of undermining the rule of law. We’re helping stakeholders as they work on solutions.

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Interested in implementing reforms? We work with stakeholders to develop consensus solutions. Learn about our reform projects and proposals.

Yes, It’s a Crime:


Allowing chickens and other domestic fowl to be at large in town (Ahoskie, NC)

Begging (multiple ordinances)

Sleeping in public parks (multiple ordinances)

Permitting “any bitch . . . to run at large during the erotic stage of copulation” (statewide)

Using silly strings within city limits (Mount Airy, NC)





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