Effective immediately, local law enforcement agencies across North Carolina shall no longer submit data to the North Carolina Traffic Stop Reporting Program.

In Session Law 2026-41 (2026 Appropriations Act), the North Carolina General Assembly repealed the law enforcement traffic statistics report.  Section 19.4.(a) of the bill repealed N.C.G.S. § 143B-903.  This legislative change eliminates the statutory mandate that required all local municipal police departments and county sheriffs' offices to collect, correlate, and submit demographic and circumstantial statistics on routine traffic stops.
 

History
In April 1999, the state legislature passed Senate Bill 76 which required traffic stop statistics be collected for state law enforcement officers effective January 1, 2000. The General Assembly later expanded this requirement to include local law enforcement officers employed by all 100 county sheriffs' offices and almost all police departments effective January 1, 2002. The legislation was enacted into law as NCGS 114-10.01. In August 2009, the law was amended with two new sections which became effective on January 1, 2010. In 2014 the statute was recodified to N.C.G.S. 143B-903.