South Carolina paper pushes for county administrator salaries
Here's a great example of a newspaper making sure county administrators are held accountable. The Anderson Independent-Mail requested the salaries of administrators in three counties. Two complied and one is resisting. So the newspaper wrote about it. Now, some journalists say it's silly to write stories when an agency denies a public records request, that the public doesn't care and it's insider baseball. Not true. Check out the
story, but more important, read the comments from the public right below on the online feedback part. Clearly, citizens want to know when an agency is being secretive, especially when it comes to tax dollars. When officials deny a public records request, they aren't saying "no" to you. They are saying "no" to the thousands or millions of people in your community. Tell those people!