City of Greensboro's improper redactions

The City of Greensboro has posted results from its online questionnaire about the next police chief. There are some questionable redactions, a practice I thought was coming to an end with the City's recent efforts to better communicate to its employees the requirements of North Carolina public records laws:

Here is an example.

The context convincingly indicates that these redactions are of nouns and pronouns (preceding articles "an" and "a" are good indications; very short words, another.). They may suggest the identity of a person or they may be foul language, it's hard to say for sure, but state law allows neither to be legitimately withheld from public records.

Here is another:

Greensboro has been know to venture into the absurd in using personnel privacy laws to keep employees' names out of public records, no matter the context. But the name of someone who this context convincingly indicates is a former employee deserves no secrecy. The City knows this, just look at the numerous documents online at the City's website that mention former City Manager Ed Kitchen without redaction. The City cannot choose to publish or redact an employee's name, current or former, arbitrarily.

There are numerous examples of what appear to be a misapplication of the requirements of the law in this document. I have asked City Attorney Terry Wood to provide me with the legal justifications for these redactions.