Mississippi State Employees (2015 - 2018)
| Submitted | Oct. 25, 2022 |
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Communications
From: Ben Goehring
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Mississippi Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Mississippi Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Monthly electronic listings of all employees of the Mississippi Executive Branch from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018. Specifically, I am seeking electronic listings of all individuals employed within all state agencies, commissions, and departments for each month from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018.
For each month, I’m seeking a spreadsheet, database, or delimited text file(s) — not paper records or a PDF created from data — with the following fields for each employee: full legal name, unique employee identification code, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, location, hire date, termination date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. If you cannot produce any of these fields, please let me know and generate only the available variables.
If these data are not available at monthly intervals, please produce the datasets at the most frequent interval possible. For example, if the data is not available monthly, please produce the data at quarterly intervals.
In addition, please include any lookup tables that may be needed to interpret the data. For example, if departments are listed with codes linked to a separate table, I will be happy to join the records myself, rather than require your staff to do so.
I am comfortable working with large data sets and can receive the records in a variety of formats (.dbf, .csv, .mdb, etc).
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Ben Goehring
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Ben Goehring
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Mississippi Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 25, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: State Personnel Board
On October 25, 2022, the Mississippi State Personnel Board received your request for “electronic listings of all individuals employed within all state agencies, commissions, and departments for each month from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018 [including] full legal name, unique employee identification code, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, location, hire date, termination date, civil service status, and gross annual salary.”
MSPB requests a brief extension of time to adequately provide you with the data you requested due to the size and scope of your request. We will not charge you any fees for this request; we are working to provide access to this data as soon as possible.
Brittany Frederick
Communications Director
Mississippi State Personnel Board
210 E. Capitol Street, Suite 800
Jackson, MS 39201
Phone: 601.359.2701
www.mspb.ms.gov<http://www.mspb.ms.gov/>
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From: Ben Goehring
Sounds good. Thank you, Brittany.
Ben
From: Ben Goehring
Hi Brittany,
I hope your week is going well. I am reaching out to see if it would be possible to add employees' birth dates to my request above. I apologize for the late notice. Please just let me know if this information is unavailable or if I just need to submit a new request.
Thank you very much for your continued help and assistance. I really appreciate it.
Best,
Ben
From: State Personnel Board
While we maintain this data, we consider specific birthdays to be personnel records as outlined in Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-100, and we must deny your request.
We are currently working on your original request; however, with more than 1.3 million data points, it is an extremely large file to export.
Brittany Frederick
Communications Director
Mississippi State Personnel Board
210 E. Capitol Street, Suite 800
Jackson, MS 39201
Phone: 601.359.2701
www.mspb.ms.gov<http://www.mspb.ms.gov/>
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From: Ben Goehring
Sounds good -- thanks Brittany.
I really appreciate all of your work with this.
Take care,
Ben
From: State Personnel Board
Thank you for granting us an extension on your request. We have conducted a review of our records and have compiled the requested data. We are providing the list of state employees in agencies for which we maintain data as of the requested dates including full legal name, unique employee identification code, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, location, hire date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. We are unable to generate termination date in this report. In this list, we excluded information on certain employees whose identities are protected from disclosure by statute. These include all employees of state hospitals, exempted under Miss. Code Ann. § 41-9-68(2)(c), and the identities of certain law enforcement agents under Mississippi Code Ann. § 25-61-12.
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From: State Personnel Board
Thank you for granting us an extension on your request. We have conducted a review of our records and have uploaded the requested data to the portal below. We are providing the list of state employees in agencies for which we maintain data as of the requested dates including full legal name, unique employee identification code, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, location, hire date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. We are unable to generate termination date in this report. In this list, we excluded information on certain employees whose identities are protected from disclosure by statute. These include all employees of state hospitals, exempted under Miss. Code Ann. § 41-9-68(2)(c), and the identities of certain law enforcement agents under Mississippi Code Ann. § 25-61-12.
Brittany Frederick
Communications Director
Mississippi State Personnel Board
210 E. Capitol Street, Suite 800
Jackson, MS 39201
Phone: 601.359.2701
www.mspb.ms.gov<http://www.mspb.ms.gov/>
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From: Ben Goehring
Thank you so much for all of your help, Brittany. I know this was a large task and I really appreciate it.
Take care -- Happy Thanksgiving.
Best,
Ben