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"Patrick Jones, a former supervisor and mayor of Redding, said he discovered the issue while reviewing public salary data on Transparent California, a database that tracks government pay. Jones said Sheriff Michael Johnson's total pay was listed at about $445,000, with no benefits shown in that breakdown."

Thanks to Emilio Del Carpio and Action News Now for using our data!

It's a little hard to imagine the elected officials in any agency in the state would not know that their employees are making almost a half million dollars, especially given the most important task of any city council, school board, or board of Supervisors has is making sure their organization is financially responsible,, but at Transparent California we know how common that is.

Can you imagine the impact if every single agency in the state had someone stand up at their next meeting and simply spend three minutes reading names and pay - from highest downward - from our website? NO one could say "we didn't know" at that point.

And they won't like it, because that would be "holding them accountable." Our own Director of Research once did annual presentations to his local school board - putting images of the site into Power Point presentations and forcing the board to sit through three minutes of proof of their lack of fiscal responsibility.

The result was not, of course, more attention to where our money was going. The result was the Board making a rule change to ban the public from making screen presentations at board meetings...

If you’d like to see more data like this, you can help by sponsoring data collection for your favorite public agency at https://transparentcalifornia.com/sponsor/. That not only provides funding but prioritizes the collection of the agency’s data in our systems.

https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/former-shasta-county-supervisor-questions-sheriffs-445k-pay-structure/article_d67b52a2-50d1-4bc3-b711-cd12a3155d58.html

Former Shasta County supervisor questions sheriff's $445K pay structure A former Shasta County supervisor is raising questions about Sheriff Michael Johnson's pay structure after spotting what he believes may be an issue in public salary data. Johnson says his