Bill would hide police salaries

California

An amendment to a bill Monday seeks to push police salary and other basic information about officers back out of public view. The bill comes on the heels of two state Supreme Court rulings last year finding that salaries and other basic information about police officers are indeed public records. AB 1855, authored by Assemblyman Anthony J. Portantino, D-La Canada Flintridge, would declare that the salaries of police officers as well as their badge numbers and individual identities are private...

[this is not transparent government, is insulting to taxpayers, and potentially dangerous otherwise given the considerable power we invest police with (guns come to mind)]

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