Public or private? TVA again declines to release employee salaries
“… There is no justification for intruding on the privacy of the thousands of TVA employees whose compensation you have requested,’’ TVA FOIA officer Denise Smith wrote to the Institute for Public Service Reporting after denying a request to release employee salaries. (Marc Perrusquia/Special to the Daily Memphian)
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As Memphis frets over possibly leaving TVA in search of cheaper electricity, the federal agency again rejects a Freedom of Information request seeking details on salaries it pays its employees.
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Marc Perrusquia
Marc Perrusquia is the director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, where graduate students learn investigative and explanatory journalism skills working alongside professionals. He's won numerous state and national awards for government watchdog, social justice and political reporting. Follow the Institute on Facebook or Twitter @psr_memphis.
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