"The pensions of retired county employees are public information, a state appeals court in San Francisco ruled Monday.
The First District Court of Appeal granted a request by the Santa Rosa Press Democrat to learn the names and pension benefits of all members of the Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association.
"The records of expenditures of public funds must be open to public inspection," the court said in a 3-0 ruling, similar to recent decisions in cases from Sacramento and San Diego counties.
The court overturned a Sonoma County Superior Court judge's ruling that also allowed the newspaper to learn each employee's age at retirement, saying state law makes such personal information confidential. But the justices said the news media and the public are entitled to disclosure of benefit levels to keep tabs on reported pension abuses.
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