Hastings & Sons Publishing v. City Treasurer of Lynn

How courts have described this case

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• stating that municipal employees are subject to restrictions and regulations not affecting private employees
• no breach of privacy in disclosure of payroll records because information not “intimate” or “highly personal”
• even if payroll records of municipal employees considered highly personal information, their disclosure, under public records statute, not unreasonable, given paramount right of public to know salaries of public servants
• disclosure of police payroll records not an “unreasonable, substantial or serious interference” with privacy
• information, such as name, address, base pay, and overtime pay of individual municipal employees, found in payroll records
• \The names and salaries of municipal employees ... are not the kind of private facts that the Legislature intended to exempt from mandatory disclosure.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).