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Re:California Highway Patrol salaries by folz on Monday October 18, 2010 @10:37PM (#1805974)
No. The Freedom of Information Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_act) allows anyone to request the salaries of government officials. Usually this means that newspapers request the salaries for all government officials and put it in a public database. My local newspaper does the same thing (http://datacenter.courier-journal.com/government/salaries/in...), and I presume yours does too, providing you live in the United States. Try searching for "$YOUR_NEWSPAPER_NAME salary database" in your favorite search engine.
Re:California Highway Patrol salaries by natrius on Monday October 18, 2010 @11:04PM (#1806044)
FOIA is only for federal information. Most states have some sort of equivalent, but the restrictions on what information is released varies.