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    Blog

    Taxpayers Going Postal Over Public Employee Pensions, Perks. Unions’ miscalculation: Opting for secrecy.

    […] of employment, which are the basis for calculating retirement benefits. Such gaming of the system boosts starting pensions to levels that can approach, and even exceed, employees' salaries. Some examples from the reporting of the Contra Costa Times' Daniel Borenstein: A retired northern California fire chief whose $185,000 salary morphed into a $241,000 annual […]

    June 11, 2010

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    CPRA

    Using Public Records Act to find a school executives’ salaries

    I am a student looking to improve my understanding of executive compensation at my school and other schools in our region. When I contact the other schools, I cannot obtain hard information. The school administrations simply ignore my emails. I can usually get access to salary schedules, which are a framework for determining compensation, […]

    July 19, 2012

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    CPRA

    Request For Public Employee W2 Forms Fulfilled, But Heavily Redacted. Are The Redactions Legal?

    I submitted a CPRA request for W2's for a group of public school employees. When I received the W2 forms, I expected the individual's Social Security Number and address to be redacted, but the school also redacted the information for the federal income tax withheld, social security tax withheld, medicare tax withheld, "other" withholdings/contributions […]

    April 26, 2022

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    CPRA

    Employee Information and the CPRA

    […] the code cover these specifics or is it left up to the agencies to decide? I saw in your previously answered questions the one entitled "Public employee salaries" which addressed the  Oakland case and employees earning over $100,000 but I am curious about the privacy of average employees and what rights they have to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Public official salaries and the CPRA

    I'd like to find information on executive salaries for public utility organizations (SMUD, LADWP, WAPA and NCPA).  Can you advise me if these are publicly available records and if so, what’s the best way to obtain them might be?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Accessing public employee timesheets

    I am seeking to obtain the time sheets (dates and hours worked) of a particular part-time city administrator. Are  time sheets public records that can be accessed to the extent that only the days worked are being requested, (NOT the days absent, days off, vacation/sick time)?

    August 4, 2011

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    CPRA

    Public employee salaries

    I would like to know the status of public release of public employment salaries. I know about the Oakland case, and Teamsters Local 856 v. Priceless, LLC which seemed to indicate that release of salaries connected with the names of employees is prohibited. How about requests for actual salaries by position and not connected […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Can I request public staff time cards?

    My community has a special water district.There is a manager and a five-person elected board.Would the manager's time-card be public information? Also, the board has not approved the minutes for months.Is there a time limit to approve minutes from meetings?

    September 26, 2011

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    CPRA

    Court Employee Anonymity

    The courts here operate with anonymity as to the identities of the employees therein, which appears to be an illegal circumstance.  Employees of the courts will sometimes inform the public their first names, and only the initials of their last names, but otherwise such simple information is treated as a secret.  Nobody has a […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    Celebrate Sunshine Week in California–Hold Public Officials Accountable for Access to Information

    […] local newspaper against that county. Two public employee unions in Alameda County are appealing lower court rulings ordering the city of Oakland to disclose the names and salaries of public employees making more than $100,000 a year. The California Supreme Court is considering that case. There's no good reason for the public officials in any of these […]

    June 2, 2009