County wages

[wrobert]

I think it is outrageous that anyone can seemingly get the individual salaries of those working for the county not elected or appointed to their position. What information is included?

Outrageous or not, the information is public by the State Constitution and Florida Statute 119. Florida still has one of the most transparent public records laws in the country. Salaries, positions, employee names are public. SSN and medical information are private. The amount of public information on an individual is also enormous. All someone has to do is start looking. With the recent identity theft activity, steps have been taken to further lock down this information. At least they now redact ssn from the government websites. You use to be able to go on and get enough to apply for a loan right online. Living off the grid is certainly a possibility if you ask me.

Teachers do enjoy some additional protection as well as law enforcement officials. To see a teachers personell file the teacher has to first be notified that it is being inspected if I remember correctly. They can not stop it but they are notified of it. LEOs can request quite a bit of their residential information to be redacted from the public records also for safety reasons.

 

[ShallowsNole]

Seems I remember an election about 12 years ago in one of the constitutional offices where a candidate printed employee name and salary information on placards and placed them on windshields of vehicles parked at Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie. GOP can correct me if I'm wrong.

As stated earlier, our personnel files, except SSN and medical info, are wide open. Fuzz's is as well, except for our address. And parts of his file have made their way into the newspaper before. :roll:

 

[wrobert]

Seems I remember an election about 12 years ago in one of the constitutional offices where a candidate printed employee name and salary information on placards and placed them on windshields of vehicles parked at Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie. GOP can correct me if I'm wrong.

As stated earlier, our personnel files, except SSN and medical info, are wide open. Fuzz's is as well, except for our address. And parts of his file have made their way into the newspaper before. :roll:

Tell him to make sure he notifies the SOE about his status. It amazes me when I am doing GOTV stuff the number of LEOs that have not made note that their information is private.

You are correct on the placards, and on the time frame. I had forgotten about that.

 

[Smiling JOe]

What does it matter if their address is not shown? Seems to me that a google or two, or a click on the property appraiser's office, will share the address.

 

[wrobert]

What does it matter if their address is not shown? Seems to me that a google or two, or a click on the property appraiser's office, will share the address.

The purpose of it is to make their homes harder to find. It seems that a lot use their agency addresses for everything. I guess if they were worried that someone they locked up would be looking for them in the future they would take the steps to make it harder to find them.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I understand the why, but if someone was serious about wanting to get even, a quick trip to the library will get them all the answers they need. It is kind of a joke for anyone trying to hide their address these days.

 

[ShallowsNole]

Heck, virtually everybody knows where we live anyway. That's what happens when you live at the end of a road named for your daddy. Except Google maps will take you to my three-houses-over neighbor. I hope he doesn't SoWal, because I don't think he is aware of that.

On a somber note, when Jackson County Sheriff Johnny McDaniel's wife was murdered, it drove the potential danger home to me so much that I almost put up a For Sale sign.

 

[wrobert]

http://www.walton.k12.fl.us/3Employees/Information.htm

This is the link for the instructional and non-instructional pay scales. They appear to be last years. This year is about 7% higher if I remember correctly.

The link to the actual pdf files is at the bottom. The first year of any employee is considered year 0.

 

[CiaoBella]

Thanks Florida Girl. I think what you did was great. Citizens should be allowed to know the salaries of county and city employees.

On a somewhat related note....if the economy is so terrible and people are so far in debt....how are police officers and other "regular" working class affording to live in Hammock Bay? The way people in this community are talking, foreclosures should be all around.

 

[beachmouse]

You can get a smaller home there for right around $200K. Figure a husband and wife each earning $30K, and a 10% down payment, and you'd be talking borrowing 3x gross family income to get a 1400-1500sf McHouse there, which is doable with the current interest rates and lending practices if you don't have too much other installment debt.