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Baltimore County employee salaries are now online, accessible via a spreadsheet provided by the county or searchable database on The Baltimore Sun's website.
The county's spreadsheet is pretty straightforward -- an alphabetical listing of employee salaries as of June 30. The Sun's database includes three years of information by individual names and agency.
Annie Linskey covers state politics and government for The Baltimore Sun. Previously, as a City Hall reporter, she wrote about the corruption trial of Mayor Sheila Dixon and kept a close eye on city spending. Originally from Connecticut, Annie has also lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she reported on war crimes tribunals and landmines. She lives in Canton.
John Fritze has covered politics and government at the local, state and federal levels for more than a decade and is now The Baltimore Sun’s Washington correspondent. He previously wrote about Congress for USA TODAY, where he led coverage of the health care overhaul debate and the 2010 election. A native of Albany, N.Y., he currently lives in Montgomery County.
Julie Scharper covers City Hall and Baltimore politics. A native of Baltimore County, she graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 2001 and spent two years teaching in Honduras before joining The Baltimore Sun. She has followed the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pa., in the year after a schoolhouse massacre, reported on courts and crime in Anne Arundel County, and chronicled the unique personalities and places of Baltimore City and its surrounding counties.
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Personally the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore County Executive owes every employee a apology. This is not news nor did it solve any Gov't spending issue. All this did was disclose what should be private information on employee's salaries. The Baltimore Sun should focus on doing some real news stories that can actually help this State. You can say salaries of Gov't employees are public information but there is not need to force them to be published. You accomplished nothing by doing so!
Posted by: Anonymous | July 1, 2011 8:05 PM
Thanks to the county exec's initiative, our relatives, friends, and neighbors have access to our salary info.
Do we know theirs? Of course we don't. We shouldn't. Nor should they know ours.
How is this not a violation of our right to privacy?
We have no problem with listing the salary ranges for various county positions. That's a reasonable degree of transparency. Showing individuals' names and their salaries is WRONG. Common sense should have prevailed.
Here's an idea, let's release the true ID's and photos of Baltimore County's undercover officers. That's transparency, all good, right?
Posted by: family with B. Co. ees | July 11, 2011 8:31 PM