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Dec 24: Mixed Reactions Over Executive Order Allowing To-Go Cocktails

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Dec 14: Mecklenburg County Jail Lifts Lockdown after Completing COVID-19 Testing

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Dec 10: Jail COVID Outbreak Spikes: 107 Inmates Test Positive; Jail Locked Down for 2 days

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Dec 10: Mecklenburg Jail on Lockdown as 107 Inmates, More Than 20 Staff Members Actively Positive for Coronavirus

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Dec 10: Mecklenburg County Detention Center in Lockdown as COVID-19 Outbreak Spreads

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Dec 10: Meck County Jail on 48-Hour Lockdown; More Than 100 Inmates Infected with COVID-19

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Dec 10: Mecklenburg County Detention Center on Lockdown After a Rise in Positive COVID-19 Cases

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Dec 9: GTL and the Brian Hamilton Foundation Team Up to Provide Free Entrepreneurship Courses in Correctional Facilities Nationwide

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Dec 5: Meck County Sheriff’s Office Gives Out Free Gun Locks to Try to Stop Accidental Shootings

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Dec 4: 'We Are Playing With People’s Lives': 65 Meck County Jail Inmates Have COVID-19

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Dec 3: 65 Inmates Test Positive for Coronavirus, 255 in Isolation or Quarantine at Mecklenburg Jail

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Dec 3: COVID-19 Cases at Mecklenburg County Detention Center-Central Continue to Rise

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Dec 3: COVID Cases Continue to Increase at Mecklenburg County Jail

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Dec 3: Meck Jail Battered By Its Biggest Surge Yet of COVID-19 Cases. Here’s Who Caused It.

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Dec 3: Mecklenburg Jail Battered By Its Biggest Surge Yet of COVID-19 Cases

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Dec 1: NYU Experts Offer 'Evidence-Based' Smart Policing Plan

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Nov 25: 18 Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus At Mecklenburg Jail

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Nov 25: ICE Launches Billboard Campaign In Charlotte Area Aimed At Sanctuary Policies

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Nov 25: 10th annual Cops and Barbers turkey giveaway event held in Charlotte

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Nov 24: Hundreds Line Up For Thanksgiving Dinner Drive-Thru In West Charlotte

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Nov 24: Officials Investigating Whether Jail Officers Did Required Checks Before Rockingham County Teen Died

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Nov 23: Officials Investigating Whether Jail Officers Did Required Checks Before Teen Died

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Nov 23: Officials Investigating Whether Jail Officers Did Required Checks Before Teen Died

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Nov 23: Officials Investigating Whether Jail Officers Did Required Checks Before Teen Died

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Nov 21: Inmate at Charlotte Juvenile Detention Center Dies by Apparent Suicide

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Nov 21: Teen Dies of Apparent Suicide Saturday at Mecklenburg Jail North, NC Officials Say

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Nov 21: Juvenile Dies from Apparent Suicide at Mecklenburg Detention Center

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Nov 17: Even With Protections, Thousands Face Eviction

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Nov 12: ICE Billboards Of Wanted Illegal Immigrants Is ‘Misinformation,’ North Carolina Sheriff Says

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Nov 11: ICE Billboards Of Wanted Illegal Immigrants Is ‘Misinformation,’ North Carolina Sheriff Says

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Nov 11: ICE Billboards Of Wanted Illegal Immigrants Is ‘Misinformation,’ North Carolina Sheriff Says

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Nov 10: Mecklenburg Sheriff Says ICE Is Spreading Untruths, Blasts New Charlotte Billboards

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Nov 10: Mecklenburg Sheriff Says ICE Is Spreading Untruths, Blasts New Charlotte Billboards

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Nov 10: NC Billboards Appear Showing Released ICE Suspects; Sheriff Disagrees About Message

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Nov 10: 'Misleading' Billboards Showing Wanted ICE Suspects Appear Around Charlotte

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Nov 10: Mecklenburg Sheriff Says ICE Is Spreading Untruths, Blasts New Charlotte Billboards

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Nov 9: New ICE Billboards On Charlotte Interstates Warn Of Dangerous Immigration Violators

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Nov 9: New ICE Billboards On Charlotte Interstates Warn Of Dangerous Immigration Violators

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Nov 9: New ICE Billboards On Charlotte Interstates Warn Of Dangerous Immigration Violators

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Nov 9: New ICE Billboards On Charlotte Interstates Warn Of Dangerous Immigration Violators

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Nov 5: Concealed Gun Permit Applications Surge In Mecklenburg County, Prompting Delays

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Nov 5: 'Unprecedented' Surge In Gun Permits Reported In Mecklenburg

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Nov 5: 'Unprecedented' Surge In Gun Permits Reported In Mecklenburg

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Nov 5: Surge in Purchase Permit and New Concealed Carry Applications

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Nov 1: Local Families Find Unique Ways To Celebrate Halloween While Staying Safe

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Oct 31: Charlotte Families Get Creative To Safely Celebrate Halloween

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Oct 31: How One Formerly Incarcerated Man Went From Never Voting To Volunteering At The Polls

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Oct 30: Will North Carolina’s Jailed Voters Be Represented In This Election?

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Oct 28: Operation “Watchful Eye” Verifies Addresses Of 1,005 Sex Offenders In Mecklenburg County

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Oct 16: On 25th Anniversary Of Million Man March, Black Men Come Together To Uplift, Empower, Encourage Voting In Charlotte

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Oct 12: 'She Mothered Me.' Judy Williams Consoled Families Of Charlotte Murder Victims, Dies At 69

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Oct 12: Finding Home: CDC Moratorium Can Help, But It Can't Stop All Evictions

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Oct 11: Getting Out The Vote In North Carolina Jails During A Pandemic

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Oct 7: Despite Misconceptions, Many Inmates Still Allowed To Vote By Mail

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Oct 7: Closing Crisis At The Epicentre; 5 Businesses Evicted

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Oct 6: 'It's About Relationships’ | Charlotte Neighborhoods Celebrate National Night Out

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Oct 5: Getting Out The Vote In Jail, During a Pandemic

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Oct 1: Helping People In Jail Exercise Their Right To Vote In North Carolina

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Sep 30: Political Climate Raises Concerns of Violence This Election

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Sep 29: FOX 46 Rides Along With ICE As Tennis Match Over Detainers Continues

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Sep 28: Mecklenburg County Seeing An Unprecedented Surge In Number of People Applying For Gun Permits

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Sep 28: ICE Arrests 12, Including 6 Previously Released From Charlotte Jail During Operation

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Sep 28: ICE Announces Targeted Arrests in Mecklenburg County

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Sep 28: ICE Agents Arrest 24 People Across NC, Including Charlotte, in Latest Operation

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Sep 28: Mecklenburg Co. Sheriff’s Office Sees Major Surge in Purchase Permits, Concealed Carry Applications

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Sep 24: ‘Four Years Ago, What Were You Doing?’: Mecklenburg County Sheriff Reflects on 2016 Protests During Time of Unrest

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Sep 22: Sheriff’s Deputies Arrest Jail Support Members During Sit-In

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Sep 21: More Than Two Dozen Arrested at Jail Support Encampment Outside Charlotte Jail

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Sep 21: 25 Jail Support Demonstrators Arrested During Staged Sit-In

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Sep 21: 25 Arrested Outside of Mecklenburg County Jail; Sheriff Calls for Unity

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Sep 21: Mecklenburg Sheriff’s Deputies Arrest 25 at Jail Support Sit-In

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Sep 21: Conflict Continues Between Activists, Mecklenburg Sheriff

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Sep 17: Meck County Sheriff, CMPD Chief Address Police Reform During Virtual Town Hall

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Sep 11: 5 People Arrested After Clashes Between Jail Support And Sheriff’s Deputies

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Sep 11: Meck Co Sheriff Evicts Jail Support Group, 5 Arrested As They Protest Friday Night

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Sep 11: Group Protests After Jail Support Encampment Cleared From Outside Mecklenburg County Jail

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Sep 11: Deputies Again Remove Charlotte Jail Support Station. Leader Calls The Act An ‘Ambush’

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Aug 18: Mecklenburg Sheriff Says Activist Group Outside Jail Is Defecating, Having Sex In Public

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Aug 18: Meck. Co. Sheriff: Jail Support Has Been Hijacked, Causing More Issues Than It's Helping

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Aug 18: Sheriff Raising More Concerns About “Jail Support” Group

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Aug 14: 20-Year Veteran Detention Officer in North Carolina Dies From COVID-19 Complications

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Aug 14: UNC-Chapel Hill Reports 2 COVID-19 Clusters in Student Housing

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Aug 14: 20-Year Veteran Mecklenburg County Detention Officer Dies From COVID-19 Complications

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Aug 14: Mecklenburg Detention Officer Dies After Contracting Covid-19

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Aug 14: 20-Year Veteran Mecklenburg County Detention Officer Dies From COVID-19 Complications

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Aug 13: Mecklenburg County Detention Officer Dies From COVID-19 Complications

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Aug 13: Longtime Mecklenburg County Detention Officer Dies From COVID-19 Complications, Officials Say

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Aug 7: The Staying Power — and Unrelenting Police Conflict — of Charlotte’s Jail Support

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Aug 3: 19 Hearses Driven Through The Streets of Charlotte in Powerful Message About Violence

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Aug 2: Mecklenburg Co. Sheriff, Local Funeral Directors Hold Hearse Procession Showing Impact of Charlotte Violence

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Aug 2: COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Meck. County Detention Center; 43 Residents Test Positive

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Jul 27: Mecklenburg Co. Sheriff’s Office Dispels Social Media Chatter of Inmate Mistreatment

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Jul 26: COVID-19 Infections Spike in Mecklenburg Detention Center: 43 Confirmed Cases Among Inmates Since June

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Jul 24: COVID-19 Cases on the Rise in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center

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Jul 24: COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Meck. County Detention Center; 43 Residents Test Positive

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Jul 24: 43 Inmates at Mecklenburg County Detention Center Test Positive for COVID-19

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Jul 24: Sheriff McFadden Questions Whether Evictions Should Resume; Challenges Sheriff's to Give $1,000 to Help Struggling Families

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Jul 21: Tensions Between Sheriff, Charlotte Jail Support Group Grow After Arrest Interference

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Jul 12: Charlotte Man Dies At Mecklenburg Detention Center: Sheriff

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Jun 8: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Changes Use of Force Policy Removes the Usage of "Tear Gas"

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Jun 5: Community Gathers at Charlotte’s Freedom Park for Educational ‘People’s University’ Event

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Jun 4: McFadden Says He's Drafting 'Duty To Intervene' Policy

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Jun 4: Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden Says He’s Drafting a ‘Duty to Intervene’ Policy

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Jun 4: New CMPD Policy Spells Out Duty To Intervene In Police Brutality

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Jun 3: After Days of Protests, Will Charlotte Be Put Under Curfew?

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Jun 3: FOX 46 Now: Protest Coverage

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Jun 3: CNN Political Commentator Bakari Sellers Will Join Alma Adams, Sheriff Garry McFadden, and Alvin C. Jacobs, Jr. for ‘Unmasked’ Virtual Panel

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Jun 3: Black North Carolina Justice System Leaders Speak in Support of Protesters’ Calls for Change

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May 29: MCSO To Reopen Registration Unit Operations With Restrictions

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May 28: Feeding Our First Responders

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May 28: Organization Delivers Meals to Sheriff's Office

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May 28: Feeding the Frontline Workers

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May 28: Feeding the Frontline Workers

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May 21: CLT After Dark (starts at 24:30)

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Apr 30: Meck County deputies surprise 10-year-old boy with birthday parade

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Apr 22: Number of Inmates Inside Some N.C. Jails Dropping

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Apr 21: Days Inn Shuts Off Utilities To Push Residents Out, Then Relents -- For Now

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Apr 15: Mecklenburg County First Responders Host Parade of Lights for Huntersville Medical Workers

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Apr 9: Charlotte Parade of Lights

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Apr 9: 'Parade of Lights' Honors Charlotte Hospital Workers' 'Relentless Dedication'

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Apr 9: Parade of Lights: First Responders Show Unity, Support for Healthcare Workers in Charlotte

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Apr 9: First Responders Hold Parade Thanking Healthcare Workers

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Apr 7: Community Engagement Officers Delivering Food to Local Hotels for Homeless Families

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Apr 6: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Announces a Positive Test for COVD-19 of a Detention Officer

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Apr 2: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Announces A Positive Test for COVD-19 of a Wellpath Nurse

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Apr 2: Nurse at Meck Co. Juvenile Detention Center Tests Positive for COVID-19

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Apr 2: Mecklenburg Jail Nurse Tests Positive for COVID-19; Exposure Minimal, Sheriff Says

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Apr 2: Nurse at Mecklenburg County Juvenile Detention Center Tests Positive for COVID-19

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Apr 2: Mecklenburg Jail Nurse Tests Positive for COVID-19; Exposure Minimal, Sheriff Says

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Apr 1: Sheriff talks about changes at Mecklenburg County jail to keep COVID-19 out

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Mar 31: Telemundo Charlotte: COVID-19 and the Hispanic Community

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Mar 26: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Remains Prepared During the Coronavirus Pandemic to Care for Residents in the Mecklenburg County Detention Centers

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Mar 26: Sheriff McFadden Issues a Plea for Citizens to Adhere to the “Stay at Home Order”

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Mar 26: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Will Continue to Process Pistol Purchase Permits and Concealed Handgun Permits During Coronavirus Crisis

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Mar 20: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Suspends Evictions During Coronavirus Crisis

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Mar 18: In-Custody Death of Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Resident

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Mar 17: Mecklenburg County Sheriff Asks Courts to Halt Evictions; Announces Other Changes

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Mar 16: MCSO Statement On Court Ordered Eviction Execution

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Mar 16: Coronavirus update: What you need to know in Mecklenburg County

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Mar 16: Mecklenburg Sheriff: Courts Should Not Issue Eviction Notices for 30 Days Due To Coronavirus

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Mar 2: Clearing up Confusion Around Raise the Age

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Feb 29: Program teaching inmates to be entrepreneurs

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Feb 19: Mecklenburg County Sheriff McFadden responds to immigration criticism

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Feb 5: A look inside Mecklenburg County's new juvenile-only Detention Center

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Feb 5: Mecklenburg County sheriff, CMPD make changes after Raise the Age law enacted

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Jan 30: Sheriff Battling Human Trafficking through Education Campaign

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Jan 29: Human trafficking education aims to help the most vulnerable

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Jan 29: These Bechtler art classes in Mecklenburg jails help develop skills and self-esteem

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Jan 27: 10-year-old Travels Hundreds of Miles to Hug Police Officers

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Jan 24: Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry L. McFadden's Response to Proposed Second Amendment Sanctuary County Designation

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Jan 21: Residents Reconnect with their Children in the Jail’s New Child-Friendly Visitation Room

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Jan 15: Largest Juvenile Detention Facility in NC Opens as Raise the Age Law goes into Effect

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Jan 14: Mecklenburg County Sheriff Warns Parents about 15 Apps that could be used to Target Children

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Jan 14: Mecklenburg County Opens New Juvenile Detention Center

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Jan 14: Mecklenburg County Transforms Existing Detention Center into One Just for Juveniles

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Jan 3: NC Churches, Police Drill Down on Training after Texas Church Shooting

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Jan 2: Places of Worship Increase Security in Wake of Recent Attacks

Apr. 14, 2019: Female Students Complete Construction Class

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Apr. 12, 2019: Executive Training in Preparation for RNC 2020

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Apr. 11, 2019: Executive Training in Preparation for RNC 2020

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Mar 20, 2019: The Need for Diversity in the Workplace

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Mar 20, 2019: Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office Hosts its First Juvenile Diversion Program for 2019

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Mar 18, 2019: Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office Holds its First Career Fair

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Mar 18, 2019: Finishing Touches as MCSO Prepares for its First Career Fair

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Feb 17, 2019: Free Phone Calls For Youthful Offenders In Mecklenburg County Jail

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Feb 12, 2019: Carolina Impact Talks With Sheriff Garry McFadden

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Jan 18, 2019: MCSO Shows How Effective Screening Wands Can Be

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Jan 18, 2019: Sheriff McFadden Discusses The Issue Of Crime And Young Black Males

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Jan 10, 2018: Sheriff Shutters Unit That Kept Teen Inmates in Solitary Confinement

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