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Letter To Gov Cooper and Sec Cohen
Letter To Gov Cooper and Sec Cohen
Letter To Gov Cooper and Sec Cohen
Pursuant to our authority under G.S. 120-19, we request immediate production of materials
related to our informal inquiry via letter dated April 15, 2020.
Your administration’s executive orders have impacted every one of this state’s 10 million
residents. As a basis for the restrictions you have put in place, your orders explicitly cite the
modeling developed with academic collaborators under the direction of the N.C. Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The data and assumptions underlying those models
are therefore of exceptional public interest and import.
Yet you have declined to answer basic questions about your modeling. On April 15, we asked
your administration to “make available their estimated number of hospitalizations” from the
modeling released by DHHS. We also requested that your administration “make the
underlying model and data available to us.”
North Carolina law requires you, upon request of “any individual member of the General
Assembly,” to provide “all information and all data within [your] possession, or ascertainable
from [your] records.”
Sincerely,