Golden Rule Not So Golden, Judge?
From time to time, yours truly has protested in this blog and elsewhere about the willy-nilly online publication of pay and pensions of public workers by various newspapers by name, including those at UC. It is quite possible to provide public information by job title and through charts and graphics summarizing averages and other descriptors without naming names. The state controller, for example, has a database that just gives pay by job title at the local level. Publication by name is an invasion of privacy and invites ID theft.
So far, no newspaper has been willing to put their own payroll data by name of employee online.
However, various court decisions in California have approved such online publication for public workers.
It now appears, however, that when it comes to California judges, they don’t want to see all of their information online. Judges are unique, so their argument goes.
Tell it to the…
Story at http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/08/4320543/california-judges-fight-online.html