Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC)
About the Task Force
Governor Cooper established the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC) through Executive Order 145 in June 2020.
Led by Attorney General Josh Stein and North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Anita Earls, the task force convened a wide range of stakeholders including: advocates, elected officials, state and local law enforcement agencies, justice-involved individuals, representatives of the judicial branch and more.
The task force submitted its recommendations on December 14, 2020. Read the final report here, the executive summary here, and the recommendations chart here.
Task Force Members
| Prefix | Name | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary | Eddie Buffaloe | Secretary, Department of Public Safety |
| The Honorable | Anita S. Earls | Associate Justice, NC Supreme Court |
| The Honorable | Josh Stein | Attorney General, State of North Carolina |
| Sheriff | Clarence Birkhead | Durham County Sheriff |
| Ms. | Angela Bryant | Assistant Secretary, NC Department of Health and Human Services |
| The Honorable | Alan Thornburg | Superior Court Judge, Buncombe County |
| Ms. | Emily Coward | Director of the Inclusive Juries Project, Duke University |
| The Honorable | Mujtaba A. Mohammed | NC Senate |
| Mr. | Henderson Hill | Senior Counsel, ACLU Capital Punishment Project |
| Ms. | Deborah Dicks Maxwell | President, Wilmington NAACP |
| Mr. | Kerwin Pittman | Founder, Recidivism Reduction Educational Programs Services |
| Mr. | Jeff Nieman | District Attorney, Prosecutorial District 18 |
| Mr. | Johnny Jennings | Chief of Police, Charlotte |
| Chief of Police | Jeffrey Smythe | Chief of Police, Burlington |
| Professor | April Dawson | Associate Dean and Professor, NC Central University Schol of Law |
| Ms. | Kim Gourrier Scott | District Attorney, Prosecutorial District 7 |
| Ms. | Nisha Williams | Legal Director, NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
| Mr. | Michael Hawkins | Transylvania County Commissioner |
| Mayor | Preston Blakely | Mayor of Fletcher |
| Mr. | Ricky Hurtado | Co-Founder, LatinXEd |
| The Honorable | Marcia H. Morey | NC House of Representatives |
| Sergeant | Billy Gartin | Sergeant, Raleigh Police Department |
| Ms. | Tracie Campbell | Mecklenburg County Office of Violence Prevention |
| Mr. | Talley Wells | Executive Director, NC Council on Developmental Disabilities |
| Mr. | Jamie Markham | Senior Advisor, Department of Adult Correction |
| Judge | Regina R. Parker | District Court Judge, 2nd District |
| Sheriff | Quentin Miller | Buncombe County |