Candidate filing for the 2025 Municipal Elections will begin on Monday, July 7, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. and end on Friday, July 18, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. (noon)
Candidates for the Office of Sheriff
North Carolina Session Law 2021-107 became effective October 1, 2021, and requires that any candidate for Election to the Office of Sheriff or appointee to the Office of Sheriff must disclose any and all felony convictions, including any expunged felony convictions. Any individual filing notice of candidacy must provide a Disclosure Statement prepared by the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission. In order to obtain a disclosure statement, potential candidates for election to the Office of Sheriff must submit the following three (3) documents to the Sheriffs’ Standards Division:
A notarized “Qualifications for Sheriff/Expunction” form
A “Law Enforcement Application for Verification of Expunction” (AOC-CR-280)
A full set of fingerprints
Disclosure statements are valid for a period of 90 days from the date of issuance to the date of filing with the county Board of Elections. For assistance contact the Department of Justice at 919-779-8213.