Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Over four meetings last spring, North Carolina leaders and impacted people from government, business, advocacy, and the community came together to discuss an important question: What should we do to make North Carolina communities safe? In this conversation, three participants from the Forum (Sen. Warren Daniel, North Carolina State Senator (District 46) serving Buncombe, Burke and McDowell Counties; Frankie Roberts, Executive Director of LINC, which provides reentry services for people leaving incarceration; Matt Scott, District Attorney for Robeson County, North Carolina) shared what they learned from working across the political aisle to understand different points of view, productively disagree, and have healthy discussions to advance solutions to improve the lives of North Carolinians.
We also talked more in-depth with them about a critical issue in North Carolina – driver’s license suspensions resulting from unpaid traffic fines and fees and failing to appear in court. Currently, nearly one million North Carolinians are impacted by this issue. We delved into the key question: how can we solve this issue while taking safety, accountability, and fairness into account?
Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law and the North Carolina Leadership Forum
Over four meetings last spring, North Carolina leaders and impacted people from government, business, advocacy, and the community came together to discuss an important question: What should we do to make North Carolina communities safe? In this conversation, three participants from the Forum (Sen. Warren Daniel, North Carolina State Senator (District 46) serving Buncombe, Burke and McDowell Counties; Frankie Roberts, Executive Director of LINC, which provides reentry services for people leaving incarceration; Matt Scott, District Attorney for Robeson County, North Carolina) shared what they learned from working across the political aisle to understand different points of view, productively disagree, and have healthy discussions to advance solutions to improve the lives of North Carolinians.
We also talked more in-depth with them about a critical issue in North Carolina – driver’s license suspensions resulting from unpaid traffic fines and fees and failing to appear in court. Currently, nearly one million North Carolinians are impacted by this issue. We delved into the key question: how can we solve this issue while taking safety, accountability, and fairness into account?
Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law and the North Carolina Leadership Forum
