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Editor’s Note 03/14/25: The submission above has been marked as “Completed”.
Please review any emails we received (07/24/2024 through 11/20/2024) from Lincoln County, NC Attorney Megan Gilbert in regard to the following records request:
Including that request – currently, we still have 3 “open” requests submitted to Lincoln County, NC:
Megan’s messages on 07/24/24 and 11/20/24 are intended to apply to all 3 of those open requests, as well as any prior requests the County has already fulfilled for us since May 2024.
We are a very small team, running this site in addition to our primary business. We have been working on, and cannot yet disclose, what our course of action is with the County. Once that plan has been laid out (publicly on our site), or, if we’ve replied to Megan and are able to share that info — then those updates will be posted on our website. However, it will continue to take us some time to resolve.
Until this matter has been resolved – unfortunately, our team at Sunshine Request ([email protected]) will not be able to send any more new requests to Lincoln County, NC Government (or Sheriff’s Department). Please do not attempt to submit any new requests to the County through our website during this time.
If you would like to submit a new records request for the County to fulfill, please reach out to them directly for assistance.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
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Sunshine Request is a site built to make requests for public records to the government — Public records are recorded information such as documents, government emails, and data sets.
In the interest of preserving our team’s time to focus on the high volume of requests on our site, as well to respect the staff time of government entities fulfilling records requests, Sunshine Request will no longer fulfill “requests” that are just informational type questions for government entities to answer.
We also will not fulfill requests made to non-government entities.
It’s the requester’s responsibility to write the request in a manner that clearly specifies a record that is being requested, and to what government entity it should be sent.
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It is important that what you are requesting is specific and reasonable, and is an actionable records request. Please specify the exact type of records you’d like to receive, rather than any “possible” or “potential” info that could be searched. Remember that the larger your request, the more time it usually takes to fulfill. Specificity will often help reduce the amount of time needed to process the request.
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