There is something unique about records management in Utah, and it might be causing confusion. We have two meanings for the term classification. One comes from the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA), the other from the records management profession. In GRAMA Most of the records officers we work with refer to classification as defined in GRAMA, which states …
Spotlight on Jordan Chandler, Utah Military Academy’s Records Officer
Meet Jordan Chandler, Records Manager for the Utah Military Academy. She has been managing the school’s records for 4 years. Jordan said “I assist in managing Cadet Files, turning them into the state for auditing purposes, Registration, etc. It plays a huge part in my job, if the records management is lacking, I cannot stay organized, or find what I …
Spotlight on Carol Bekker, Thomas Edison Charter School Records Officer
Meet Carol Bekker, Records Manager for the Thomas Edison Charter School. Carol has been managing the school’s records for 13 years. Carol enjoys having everything organized. She ensures retention guidelines are followed and regularly re-appraises records as they come up for destruction. Currently, Carol is working with her team to develop policies regarding records management and retention. She says “This has …
New General Retention Schedule Interface!
We are live! The new general retention schedule search page is here! Please explore the filters and search features. Here’s what’s new: Disposition Authority. This is the new number assigned to the schedule. Comment on individual general retention schedules Suggest search terms for individual general retention schedules Search by keyword, title, general schedule number, retention Search all general retention schedules …
In one week: New General Retention Schedule Interface
In one week, the new general retention schedule interface will launch! On the new interface you’ll be able to: Search all general retention schedules at once Search by keyword, title, general schedule number Comment on individual general retention schedules Suggest search terms for individual general retention schedules We hope these new features will make it easier for you to find …
Big changes to General Retention Schedules
Big changes are coming for the general retention schedules! The Utah Division of Archives and Records Service has been working with stakeholders to update and consolidate general retention schedules since 2013. The next stage is to help record officers find general retention schedules more easily. Currently, general retention schedules are divided by categories under four government types: state, county, municipality, …
Agency-Specific General Retention Schedules
All of an organization’s records need to be managed according to a retention schedule per Utah Code 63A-12-103(2008). To assist in this, the Division of Archives and Records Service (Archives) maintains a general retention schedule, approved by the State Records Committee, to determine retention of common records created by most agencies. You may have noticed a link for departments on …
Spotlight On: Linda Bright
Linda Bright is a GRAMA specialist for the Northern Region of the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS). She has been working on GRAMA requests for the last 9 years and has been employed with DCFS for 25 years. On average, she completes as many as 60 GRAMA requests and responses per month. As part of her work in …
General Retention Schedule Publication
There have been a lot of updates to the general retention schedule this year. “General Schedule Updates, October 2017” can be found on our website. This new publication lists all new, edited, or obsolete General Schedules from November 2016 to today- alphabetically by schedule name and numerically by schedule number. There is also an excel file in the table of …
September SRC Retention Report
The previously posted general schedules were heard by the State Records Committee yesterday and approved. The general schedules were previously posted on this blog for your input. To hear the discussion regarding these schedules, please go to the State Records Committee’s page on the Public Notice Website. All are welcome to attend the State Records Committee and provide input on …