City Pension Funds Refuse to Release Recipients’ Names
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New York City officials are keeping secret the names of tens of thousands of retirees who get pensions from the city, a step that breaks with decades of tradition and has outraged advocates of open government.
The change in the funds’ practice first came to light when the city’s police pension fund refused to turn over the names of pensioners to the Empire Center, a branch of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative policy group.
The Empire Center maintains a database of city and state workers and retirees that is widely used by the news media. It sued over the decision to withhold information; the pension fund prevailed in court late last year, and the case is now being appealed.
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