Officers arrested Raleigh resident Kevin Spruill three times in 2023, telling him he had an outstanding arrest warrant. All three were for the same warrant, he said, and it was no longer active because it had already been served.
It didn’t matter. It was still listed in eWarrants, part of North Carolina’s new electronic court records system. It took Spruill hours each time to convince law-enforcement officers that the system was wrong.
Now Spruill is among potentially hundreds of North Carolina residents who will receive payments for such hassles. Tyler Technologies, the company behind eCourts, has agreed to pay up to $1.5 million in a class-action settlement of a federal lawsuit, according to court documents filed Monday…