The public has a right to many kinds of information, but citizens do not lose their right of privacy when they are hired as public employees. Some messages and records may be purely personal in nature, and if they are, they are not subject to public disclosure. Disclosing records without notice denies people the opportunity to assert that a record is personal rather than public, and to have that assertion decided by an appropriate authority.

An employee's exact pay rate is something that many people would regard as personal. I think the public interest is satisfied by disclosing the minimum and maximum pay for the particular positions in the government.