Push to hide police salaries from public

There's a push to make even less law enforcement information accessible to the public and the press. Right now, when an officer is accused of misconduct, the press is banned from sitting in on the hearings. A state bill is proposing to hide police salaries.

From the

San Jose Mercury News

An amendment to a bill Monday seeks to push police salary and other basic information about officers back out of public view. The bill comes on the heels of two state Supreme Court rulings last year finding that salaries and other basic information about police officers are indeed public records. AB 1855, authored by Assemblyman Anthony J. Portantino, D-La Canada Flintridge, would declare that the salaries of police officers as well as their badge numbers and individual identities are private and cannot be publicly disclosed. The bill's sponsor is the Peace Officers Research Association of California, a group that lobbies for officers.