State Sen. Bill Tallman will try again this year to prevent the public from learning who applied to be a city manager, a school superintendent or a police chief.
Tallman, D-Albuquerque, is 82 years old and himself a retired city manager. He remembers a certain personal discomfort when he was running a city in Pennsylvania and his name surfaced as a candidate for a similar job in Florida.
He says releasing the names of applicants for high-level government jobs shrinks the field of good applicants. By Tallman’s anecdotal account, qualified administrators often are afraid to apply for other jobs if their names will be made public.