Way back in 2014 this blog dipped its toe into discussing the then-recent Presidential Directive M-12-18 with FAQ: Will the paperless directive for federal agencies have an impact on state or local recordkeeping?. The Directive introduced a requirement for all executive agencies to move away from paper recordkeeping and toward a digital framework of electronic…
We’ve had this question from a few local governments and state agencies, who wonder whether the directive for federal agencies to manage all email and permanent records electronically by 2019 (known as the Managing Government Records Directive) will extend to state or local governments. The answer is a resounding no. State and local governments will…
This is the first of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. Those of you who have been reading this blog for some time may have seen previous articles regarding President Obama’s Memorandum on Records Management and the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA’s) Directive for federal record keeping. Although these recent developments…
This article is the fifth and final in a series of our takeaways from 2012 NAGARA-CoSA Annual Conference. By Erica Wilson, Government Information Analyst Last December, we posted an article about the presidential memorandum regarding records management for federal agencies, the first such memorandum to address records management since Harry S. Truman’s presidency. At the…
By Erica Wilson, Government Information Analyst On November 28, President Barack Obama released a presidential memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies on the subject of managing government records. In the national directive, the President writes about what many in the field know and try to impart on others: when records are managed…