After years of refusing to provide an accounting of city workers’ names and salaries, Taft fully complied with our request just a day after our lawsuit was filed. 

For more about the nature of that dispute, be sure to check out the fantastic media coverage from Bakersfieldnow.com. And to view the pay data itself, head on over to TransparentCalifornia.com.

Unfortunately, two more lawsuits were filed last week against non-compliant agencies: The Fresno Council of Governments and the City of Hanford.

I suppose when you are requesting data from over 2,500 unique agencies there are going to be a few that play hardball!

You can learn more about those cases by checking out the media coverage below:

• Hanford being sued for allegedly violating Public Records Act (Julissa Zavala / Hanford Sentinel)
• Fresno Public Agency Won’t Release Employees’ Names With Salaries. Now a Watchdog Sues (Lewis Griswold / Fresno Bee)

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