Should the PSC be unconcerned about privacy rights?

The collision of two cherished principles — the constitutional right to privacy and the public's right to know — is often described as a "delicate balance" where, under any given set of circumstances, one trumps the other. These are challenging decisions, with commissioners and judges often called upon to weigh competing arguments and make the difficult call.

Such was the case recently, when the Public Service Commission took up the question of whether a previously passed PSC rule requiring all regulated utilities — large or small — to publicly release the salaries of their top three executive...