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Monday, October 08, 2007

FOI At Work...Online Credits

Sixteen Sacramento city firefighters were paid an extra $50,000 cumulatively for higher education credits they earned from online schools that often grant degrees with little or no course work or classroom study, a newspaper reported.

Their 5 percent raises were stopped after fire officials began investigating when a dozen more firefighters applied for the pay hikes, according to city payroll records and other documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee under the California Public Records Act.

More here.

2 comments:

The Geezer said...

Hmmm. Kinda like a King County (Seattle) sheriff's candidate that I outed.

Getting a pay premium from a diploma mill.

Article here:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/239247_fuda03.html

National Freedom of Information Coalition said...

Not nearly enough of this kind of FOIA work...thanks for the link!

CD