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City Fights Blogger On Display of Public Information

Posted by Zonk on from the security-through-obscurity-right dept.

rokkaku writes "When the gadfly blogger Claremont Insider went searching for information about employee compensation on the city of Claremont web site, they never expected to find scans of pay stubs for all the employees. Nor did they expect the city attorney to demand that they remove copies of those pay stubs from their web site. They found it especially odd since, according to California law, the compensation of public employees is public information."

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  1. Re:compensation != paystubs by Surt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Note to mods. It's not redundant when the post number is lower.

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  2. Re:Pay stub != compensation by Epistax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does this (sarcastically implied) belief apply to gun ownership as well?
    (But it is illegal to shoot someone until they are dead! Surely no one would break the law! This point is moot!

    I know it's a MAJOR threadjack but I'm constantly thinking about my own view on gun ownership. The issues seem very different but we're talking about the same thing: improper use of resources. When do you say that someone can't have it because we fear (assume) something will go wrong?... bah my head hurts.


    /if people would stop being assholes then we wouldn't have these problems

  3. Re:Pay stub != compensation by JackMeyhoff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    COMPILE ERROR 105344435435: Unbalanced paranthesis

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