Other (indicate in message) Submitted: April 12, 2023 | Updated: April 12, 2023

[See Editor’s Note](April 2023) Submission related to “Employee salary request” in Rutherford County

Date sent in to Sunshine: 4/12/23

Original Subject:
Employee salary request

Original Message:
Rutherford County government salary request.

Government Entity:
Other (indicate in message)

Start Date / End Date:
April 03, 2023 - April 30, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sunshine Request makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.

Editor’s Note 04/13/23: The submission above has been marked as “Completed.” As written, it is unclear what specific public records the sender would like to receive. We will assume, however, the sender is referring to Rutherford County “in North Carolina”, and not in Tennessee. (This was not specified).

On March 28, 2023 we fulfilled a request for Rutherford County, NC employee names, positions, and salaries. Please review all responsive records, and any information we received from Amy Hamrick regarding future requests — at the Following URL:

https://www.sunshinerequest.com/records_request/march-2023-request-for-rutherford-county-nc-government-all-current-employee-salaries-as-of-03-24-23-or-present-day/

We also fulfilled similar requests in May 2021, May 2022, and September 2022. As we continue to receive requests related to Rutherford County salaries — we would like to suggest that future senders review our View All Requests page before submitting a new request. Please check to see if the responsive records you hope to receive have already been provided. Those requests can be accessed by performing a search for the word ” Rutherford ” on our website.

We do not know if Rutherford County, NC Government has a public data dashboard with salary info, and/or if their salary info is proactively being made public online. We’re happy to continue to send in records requests on the sender’s behalf to obtain updated salaries. However, if the sender plans to request updated employee salaries on a monthly or even semi-regular basis, we recommend that they get in touch with Rutherford County directly to ask them to consider posting that type of info on their website (or on an open data dashboard) on a recurring basis. It is in the public interest for them to do so, and will save staff time.

Perhaps something similar to what the City of Asheville, NC uses:

https://data-avl.opendata.arcgis.com/

https://data-avl.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/4d96bf8fbad640edbe124fe7185ba670_0/explore


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Status: Completed

Activity:

  • April 12, 2023 3:52 pm

    11 months ago

    Submitted to Sunshine Request
    Status: Pending