Font Resize- Aug 11:
- Pete Nowicki's e-mail about retirement as Moraga-Orinda fire chief
- Jul 30:
- My Word: Abuse of pension system can't be tolerated
- Jul 24:
- Database: Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association pensioners who earn more than $100,000 per year
- More than 400 in Contra Costa get $100,000+ pensions
- Jul 14:
- Editorial: Contra Costa judge's pension ruling is a huge victory for the public
- Jul 13:
- Letter: Pensions a conspiracy to steal from public
- Jul 1:
- Editorial: Reining in overly generous public employee pensions
- Jun 27:
- Your Turn: Public employee pension must change
- Jun 17:
- Newspapers join fight over pension data release
- Jun 3:
- Daniel Borenstein: Public employee pension data must be open
- Jun 2:
- Effort to release public pension details in court
- May 14:
- Letter: Irresponsible spending on employee pensions
- May 2:
- Daniel Borenstein: Guide to bad pension policy
- Apr 12:
- Daniel Borenstein: 'Spiking' of public pensions is costing taxpayers
- Apr 5:
- Daniel Borenstein: Public-employee pension are unsustainable
- Mar 15:
- Daniel Borenstein: System in dire need of reform
A Contra Costa County judge has ruled against retired deputy sheriff Donna Irwin who sought to block the public release of her pension payment details.
As a result of the decision, the Contra Costa County Employees Retirement Association will release to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, a pension reform watchdog group, the names and pension amounts of former county employees who collect $100,000 or more per year.
The Contra Costa Times, the Los Angeles Times and the California Newspaper Publishers Association also joined the lawsuit.
The newspapers sought to preserve gains the industry made in a successful case brought by the Contra Costa Times in 2007 in which the California Supreme Court ordered public agencies to disclose as public information the names and salaries of employees.
Superior Court Judge Barry Baskin agreed with the newspaper's attorney that pension data, such as public employee salaries, is public information.
