Many state employees are very upset that the Sacramento Bee’s website includes a searchable database listing state employee salaries, job titles and agencies. We share our members’ concerns about privacy and that this information is so easy to obtain.
The information has been publicly available for many years; what’s changed is what the Bee has created as easily searchable database for this information on state employees.
Under current law, the state and Local 1000 have no power to prevent the Bee or any other news organization from publishing this information. Below you will find links to the following:
We suggest that members who are concerned about this new database take action above and contact Bee editor Melanie Sill at (916) 321-1002 or msill@sacbee.com, and Public Editor Armando Acuna at (916) 321-1250 or publiceditor@sacbee.com; Ms. Sill is the top editor at the Bee and Acuna handles their reader complaints.
Please feel free to cc any complaint via email to Jim Zamora in the SEIU Local 1000 Communications office at jzamora@seiu1000.org.