Mississippi State Employees (2019 - 2022)
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| Submitted | June 13, 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:
Monthly electronic listings of all employees of the Mississippi Executive Branch from January 1, 2019 to the present. Specifically, I am seeking electronic listings of all individuals employed within the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and all state agencies, commissions, and departments for each month from January 1, 2019 to May 31, 2022.
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
From: State Personnel Board
Mr. Goehring,
One June 14, 2022, the Mississippi State Personnel Board received your request for “[m]onthly electronic listings of all employees of the Mississippi Executive Branch from January 1, 2019 to the present [s]pecifically [ . . .] electronic listings of all individuals employed within the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and all state agencies, commissions, and departments for each month from January 1, 2019 to May 31, 2022.”
We do not maintain data for the offices of the governor and lieutenant governor, so we are unable to respond to that part of your request. At the end of each fiscal year in June, the state shuts down access to its reporting software to convert to the next fiscal year. Our systems are currently down until early July. MSPB requests a brief extension of time to adequately provide you with the data you requested. We anticipate being able to respond in early July 2022.
We appreciate your understanding and patience.
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
HI Brittany,
Thanks for your response! This sounds good to me. I will look forward to hearing from you in a few weeks.
Thanks!
Ben
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Mississippi Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 14, 2022. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on July 22, 2022. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: State Personnel Board
Thank you for your patience. We have been navigating technical difficulties associated with our new software converting to a new fiscal year for the first time, and we have been unable to prepare the requested data as quickly as we intended. We anticipate being able to provide a response to you next week.
Brittany Frederick
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, termination date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. 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
We just uploaded the requested information at the link you provided. Thank you for granting us an extension on your request. We provided 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, termination date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. 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
Hi Brittany,
Thanks so much! These look great.
Take care,
Ben