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A Washington State Court of Appeals judge ruled February 25 that salary records of Tacoma (Wash.) Public Library employees are open to public inspection. Judge J. Robin Hunt decided that employee names and salaries—but not employee identification numbers--should be available under the state's Public Disclosure Act, according to the Tacoma News Tribune. Including Social Security numbers, Hunt ruled, would amount to an invasion of privacy.

The decision stemmed from a 1995 request for payroll records by the library's union. The library complied at the time, but deleted employee names and Social Security numbers from its data.

Posted March 9, 1998.

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