LOS ANGELES : Salaries of Court Officials Published After Legal Fight
A Los Angeles legal affairs newspaper published salaries of Municipal and Superior court officials Tuesday after winning a legal battle for disclosure of their wages and benefits.
The Metropolitan News-Enterprise requested the information in June, 1992, and Superior Court Judge Donald E. Smallwood ruled last month that, under the 1st Amendment, the public has a right to know the wages. “We have spent well in excess of $5,000 in attorney fees in order (to) gain access to something that should never have been concealed,” Editor and Co-Publisher Roger M. Grace said.
According to the figures released by the city’s auditor-controller, Superior Court administrators’ salaries range from $87,246.96 to $114,570 while supervisors in Municipal Court earn between $44,138.16 and $160,744.08.
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