ABSTRACT: As reported the news article entitled “Stilwell: Most secretive gov’t. official in state?” by Mary Schley, The Carmel Pine Cone, June 20, 2014, “Thomas Peele, who works for the Bay Area News Group and other media outlets, and has been publishing salary information of Northern California cities, counties, school districts and special districts for the past six years, sent Stilwell a routine request for information about city salaries— the same request that many cities and counties receive — on April 30.” “But instead of getting a spreadsheet of the data as he expected, on May 16, Peele was sent a pdf with numbers that can’t be sorted or evaluated for different criteria, such as the highest-paid worker, or the person who earned the most overtime. And when he specifically asked for a spreadsheet or other electronic database, his request was ignored.” Further, “Peele said that if the city wouldn’t give him the records he wanted as a spreadsheet, its only other option would be to “release its 2013 payroll data in the electronic format in which it holds the information” — language which comes directly from the California Public Records Act.” Finally, “Stilwell wrote June 13, “Mayor and Council: The city responded to the Public Records Act request below within 10 days. We created a document in order to fulfill the response. The recipient was not satisfied with the format of the document, assuming there was a report we generated off the city’s system that was producible (there is not). The information requested has been provided in the breakdown requested.”” The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea Public Employee
Salary Database 2013 document complied
by Daniel
J. Willis and Thomas
Peele is embedded.
City of
Carmel-by-the-Sea Public Employee Salary Database 2013
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