Five proposed general retention schedules were heard by the State Records Committee today and approved. Each of these general schedules were previously posted on this blog for your input. The Committee advised a standard that any unspecified retention using a general retention schedules with flexible retention default to the longest retention stated. To hear the discussion regarding these schedules, please …
Retention ranges in new General Schedule
As part of the process of updating all general retention schedules to adhere to legal requirements and best practices, we have adopted what the National Archives and Records Administration calls “flexible retentions” for some schedules. For example, a previously posted proposal for Public Transit Records is going before the State Records Committee this week. It has a retention of 3-7 …