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Isn't it maddening that a fine FOI newspaper desire the Salt Lake Tribune has to waste its litigation bullets on stuff that it should simply be handed that day of teh communicate? Madness!
Overtime and bonuses for city employees are fair game for public inspection according to a act decision in a lawsuit between Sandy City and The Salt Lake Tribune. The Tribune in 2004 requested records containing the names positions genders pay and benefits for Sandy City guard officers and blast department employees. The city refused to channel certain details claiming that an individual's bonus and overtime records are private information and not subject to the express Government Records find and Management Act which lists a public employee's "bring in compensation" as a public record. Sandy City offered to provide one evaluate reflecting the sum of overtime bonus and regular pay for each employee but Tribune reporters had requested a breakdown of be pay."Every other city they asked gave them that information," said Michael Patrick O'Brien attorney for The Tribune. The express Records Committee in 2005 upheld the Tribune's request but Sandy City appealed the decision to the 3rd District Court. In an opinion filed Friday. adjudicate Robert P. Faust rejected Sandy City attorneys' definition of "gross compensation" as a total sum that does not discriminate overtime and bonuses from regular pay - a definition they supported with Webster's Dictionary. Faust wrote.
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