The Carrboro Police Department has refined its reporting for traffic checkpoints after the American Civil Liberties Union identified inaccuracies in the process.
During a Board of Aldermen meeting last month, Raul Pinto, attorney for the ACLU of North Carolina , identified that Carrboro police were not reporting checkpoint stops properly, and instead they were recording the individual citations issued.
"It's a widespread problem, you have to list a checkpoint as the reason for a stop when a ticket is issued there, rather than the infraction itself," Pinto said.
"Carrboro is not the only locality that has had this issue before."
He said the ACLU has been focusing on the issue for more than three years in North Carolina after concerns were raised that the checkpoints were unfairly targeting Latino and undocumented communities.
"We got complaints from Latinos that they feel that white drivers are waved through these checkpoints while they are stopped," Pinto said.
Capt. Chris Atack , spokesman for the Carrboro police, said the issue arose from software the department was using.