CORA change would mask employee pay
1/8/2009 - 2:58pm
The salaries of individual public employees could be kept secret under a new bill sponsored by Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Lois Tochtrop and prompted by a database of state employee pay published last year by The Denver Post.
Under Senate Bill 49, the public could still see aggregated pay for positions or departments, but there would be no more looking up a particular state employee's salary.
Tochtrop said the change to the Colorado Open Records Law "still needs work," but she thinks it will cut down on office conflicts.
"When you're dealing with public salaries along with names, it can cause a lot of problems," she said. "That goes beyond transparency."
The Colorado Association of Public Employees brought Tochtrop the bill this summer, she said.
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