New York's highest court Tuesday ordered that the names of retired teachers, police officers and other government workers be released publicly in a case that tested the power of the state Freedom of Information Law. Read More
Tag: Transparency
Overtime pay boosted eight Port Authority police officers' salaries over $300,000 last year, and overall, 11 officers each earned more than the chairmen in New York and New Jersey who ran the two-state agency. Read More
The state's highest court ruled Wednesday that the names but not the addresses of retirees who receive public pensions must be disclosed according to the provisions of New York's Freedom of Information Law. Read More
New York’s highest court on Tuesday held that the names of state and local government retirees receiving pensions may not be shielded from the public. The 6-0 decision by the New York Court of Appeals, which reversed a consistent string of lower court rulings, was a setback to public employee unions in the state that have fought for years to prevent a conservative fiscal watchdog group in Albany from collecting the pension records and including them in a searchable database. Read More
In a great advance for the taxpayers’ right to know, New York’s highest court ruled unanimously that the names of state and local pensioners, and the amounts of their retirement payments, are a matter of public record. Read More
Score a victory for transparency, a precious commodity in Albany these days. More important, score a big win for New York taxpayers. That’s our take on a unanimous decision Tuesday by the Court of Appeals, our state’s highest judicial body, ruling that the public has the right to know the names of retirees receiving public pensions. Read More
The state Court of Appeals sided with the Empire Center for Public Policy and held that the names of state and local government retirees receiving pensions are subject to public disclosure. Read More
The state Court of Appeals today ruled, 6-0, in favor of the Empire Center’s challenge of lower court decisions that allowed the New York State and New York City Teachers Retirement Systems (NYSTRS and NYCTRS, respectively) to keep secret the names of retired employees receiving pensions. See the full opinion by Judge Robert Smith here. Read More