Posts pertaining to local governments (counties, cities, school districts, special districts, etc.)
This weekend I was at a basketball game with a friend and, as you might expect, our conversation turned to records management. My friend works for the accounting department of another state agency, and he said he knows you can’t destroy records before their retention period, but he was wondering if there is anything wrong…
Essential records, also known as vital records or mission-critical records, are the records necessary for responding to an emergency or disaster; necessary to resume or continue operations; that protect the health, safety, property, and rights of residents/citizens; that would require an enormous amount of resources to reconstruct; and that document the history of communities and…
By Angela Ossar, Government Information Analyst One common record series on state agency schedules (particularly state university schedules, since one critical function of most universities is the conduct of research) is “Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights.” This is not a series that appears on any of our state and local schedules. So, how long should records…
By Angela Ossar, Government Information Analyst This week’s Question of the Week is: Do you have to keep board, commission, or committee members’ employment service records permanently? This question was asked after a discussion of Public Access Option forms at the TMCA Lone Star Chapter’s Records Management Workday on July 14th in Plano. The short…