High court ruling establishes concrete transparency deadlines and public map-submission windows ahead of next cycle's decennial reapportionment.
In a 5-2 opinion, the Supreme Court of North Carolina outlined clarified procedural requirements governing how the General Assembly must solicit public feedback before enacting revised legislative and congressional maps.
The opinion mandates a 30-day public comment window and open data access for citizen cartographers to submit alternative boundary models.
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