As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing three new schedules for your consideration. We would like these to be submitted to the State Records Committee’s December 11th meeting. First is Animal Control. There are currently 11 county and 11 municipal schedules related to animal control. Can they all be combined into one? The …
Correspondence Webinar
The Utah State Archives is hosting a webinar on Friday, July 11th at noon. The topic to be discussed is “Using the New Correspondence Schedules”. All records officers, and their supervisors, will benefit from this training. We will review briefly the process by which the new schedules were created, review the new general schedules and discuss how they apply to …
GRAMA Updates for 2013
Each year as the State Legislature does its work it inevitably make changes to the Government Records Access and Management Act. Changes in 2013 amounted to additional records being identified as public, private, and protected, and the creation of a State Legislature email website. The State Auditor’s representative was removed from the State Records Committee and replaced by a second member …
2012 Summer Training Events
To register for a training event, please click here. Salt Lake City, UT Providing Public Access to Government Records (parts 1 &2) 9:00 am to 3:00 pm May 23, 2012 August 22, 2012 Manti, UT Handling Office Overload: Basic Records Management (parts 1 &2) 9:00 am to 3:00 pm August 1, 2012 Providing Public Access to Government Records (parts 1 …
Legislature Updates Records Law
Nearly every year the Legislature makes changes to the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) or other state records laws. In the past, most changes have been quietly implemented. However, last year when lawmakers passed House Bill 477 the resulting public outcry prompted its speedy repeal. The public message was that Utahans want easier access to government records and not …
2012 Records Management Resolution, pt. 3: Communicating with Your Legal Department
The first week of March is behind us, and the days are getting longer and warmer. Typically, we associate this time of year with spring cleaning; throwing out the old to make room for the new. Remember that records management resolution from January? We do. In part one, we challenged records officers to evaluate current records management practices in their …
2012 Winter/Spring Training Events
To register for a training event, please click here. Salt Lake City, UT Controlling and Managing Law Enforcement Records, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm February 8, 2012 Providing Public Access to Government Records, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm February 22, 2012 May 23, 2012 Essential Records Protection and Disaster Recovery, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm April 11, 2012 What’s in …
Keeping Everything? Applying General Retention Schedules
Utah has general retention schedules designed to assist governmental agencies in managing their records. These schedules provide a description of the records, a suggested GRAMA classification (public, private, protected, controlled, or exempt), a length of time that they must be kept (retention), and a final disposition for the records. The disposition of records falls into two categories: 1) destroy the …
When a Note is a Record
With more than 15 references to the term “personal” in the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA), it comes as no surprise that Utah governmental agencies struggle to apply the term to the records managed by their office. GRAMA references: “personal use,” “personal privacy,” “personal notes,” and more. Yet, there is no definition provided by the law to guide …
2012 Utah State Archives Records Management Training Dates
The Utah State Archives is pleased to announce the 2012 training dates. It will be an exciting year for training as we introduce two new workshops: “What’s In Those Cabinets: Tackling the Records Inventory and Appraisal Process” and “Essential Records Protection and Disaster Recovery.” Participants of these workshops will begin the process of inventorying in-office records, create a standardized rubric …