Press Releases

With the year’s eighth tropical system now forming in the Atlantic, Governor Pat McCrory is reminding coastal residents to stay tuned to local media and keep a close eye on the weather in the coming week.

This week summer break ends for thousands of North Carolina children as they head back to school.

With the beginning of school, more than one million students will be attending North Carolina’s public schools.  With that brings an increase of school buses on North Carolina highways.

As students and educators return to school and the peak of hurricane season nears, Governor Pat McCrory is encouraging individuals, families, schools and businesses to review their emergency plans and update their supply kits.

Officials with the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice today during an open house offered community leaders and elected officials their first view of the Western Area Multipurpose Juvenile Crisis and Assessment Center in Asheville.

North Carolina prison officials received notice today that escaped inmate Jason Strickland was in law enforcement custody in West Virginia.

State Capitol Police Officer Ruby Savage was awarded the Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate from the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission on August 12, 2016.

Statement from Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank L. Perry Regarding Last Week’s Trooper Involved Shooting in Charlotte   “Any loss of life regardless of the circumstances is truly a tragic and sad event for all involved.

Greene County sheriff's deputies captured escaped inmate Waylon Flynn at about 8:30 this morning in the woods just a few miles from Greene Correctional Center.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice will host an open house at the Western Area Multipurpose Juvenile Crisis and Assessment Center in Asheville.

Corrections and law enforcement officers are seeking inmate Waylon Flynn #1321919, who escaped tonight from Greene Correctional Center.

A juvenile committed through the juvenile justice system to the custody of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice and placed at the Edgecombe Youth Development Center has failed to return from an 8-hour leave with his family.   

The potential for a sex offender to contact a child through gaming and social media sites like Xbox, Wii, Kik or Snapchat is as real in rural Halifax County as anywhere in the country. 

The State Highway Patrol responded to a one-vehicle fatal collision on I-40 west near the Jones Sausage Exit.  

Over the past two years, North Carolina has improved 18-spots in Wallet Hub's rankings of the quality of education in all 50 states, breaking through to the top-20 best schools in the country.