Analysis on records/CAR

The article that I chose to analyze for this is about information that has been held from the North Carolina public for 35 years.

The article covers information that has not been disclosed the public about the salaries that government employees receive whether they are promoted or demoted to different positions.  The writer goes on to explain that when a woman lost her job that was lower than her previous job she received no pay cut which did not help the economy as a whole.  The North Carolina state government does now allow access to the salaries of any employees for up to five years.  This has been interpreted as the government is trying to hide information, such as spending, from the public.

The writer also talks about how people have been trying to sway the current law into making the salaries and employment history made public without question, but this is something that according to the article has already been attempted at in 2001 which was denied.  The writer then goes on to say that the information could be seen as to too shocking to the public, giving the impression that employees are getting paid far above what they should be during budget cuts to the state.

Computer skills that could have been used to develop the data for the article could be the information about how local news coverage has been able to track down how much government workers have made.  There is also the amount of money that is included in the article of how much some employees make.  That data had to be found during some sort of computer search online of records that had been made public and most likely was put on to the internet.