A judge on Wednesday directed UNC-Chapel Hill not to dispose of any written communications related to allegations raised in a lawsuit by former Provost Chris Clemens .
Clemens, the former UNC provost who is suing the university and its Board of Trustees over what he says were violations of open meetings and public records laws, accused UNC trustees of using Signal — an encrypted and secure messaging platform with an auto-delete feature — to conduct public business. The same lawsuit alleged the approval of Bill Belichick’s hire, as well as other discussions pertaining to UNC athletics, occurred in illegal closed session.
In a motion last week, Clemens asked the court to require imaging of phones “to prevent ongoing and irreparable spoliation of evidence.”…