We have less than 40 seats available for the 2024 e-Records conference on November 22 in Austin. Don’t miss out! The early bird rate of $85 has been extended to November 8. Register now and save $15 on a full day of training and networking. Be sure to visit the conference webpage to read about…
When: Friday, November 22, 2024Where: Commons Conference Center in Austin, Texas Registration for the 2024 e-Records Conference is now open! You can register through the registration portal. You can also visit the event portal at this link: tsl.texas.gov/slrm/training/registration24. To launch registration, click “For Attendees.” Be sure to visit the conference webpage to read about our…
Program Planning and Research Specialist Joshua Clark spoke with Veronica Barnes of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) about the educational pamphlet of the State Agency Coordinating Committee Records and Information Management (SACCRIM) subcommittee. Check out the previous educational pamphlets here. This interview was conducted by email between April and May 2023 and has…
More than 7,800 House and Senate bills were filed this session. Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is again tracking those bills with the potential to affect the retention and disposition of government records in Texas. For the 88th Legislative Session, we identified about 110 bills that change retention periods, modify reporting requirements, or…
On Friday, August 16, over twenty local government entities in Texas were targeted by a coordinated ransomware attack. This incident is the most recent in a year marked by cyberattacks on state and local governments across the country. Several state and federal agencies are investigating and actively working with the impacted Texas entities to help…
Picture this: you’ve gathered up all the records subject to an expunction order and you’re ready to return, destroy or redact them as directed by the court. Then you look at the expunction order. It identifies the person in the order and it’s a government record. What do you do with it? Based on how…
Updated February 2025 When you read TSLAC’s local government retention schedules (“local schedules”), you may notice the word “obsolete” pops up in lots of different places. Some folks ask us what we mean when we say obsolete. Obsolete generally refers to a record that is no longer active. How your records management program must treat…
It’s been almost 6 years since we addressed this question originally. In that time, the popularity of text messaging (“texting”) has skyrocketed while awareness that text messages (“texts”) are potentially government records has increased very little. Here we go again! The definition of a government record in Texas is media neutral. A record is defined…