Many companies have document retention policies that are known only to records and information technology employees. These companies overlook the fact that the reach of the records department or IT ...

Electronic documents will be retained as if they were paper documents. Therefore, any electronic files, including records of donations made online, that fall into one of the document types on the ...

There is no question that construction is a uniquely document-intensive industry. On every project, countless, lengthy, records are generated: contracts, specifications, daily reports, meeting minutes ...

The IRS attempt to get non-profits to adopt document retention and destruction policies is misguided in nearly every way imaginable. It does little more than create a business for lawyers and other ...

The University will follow a records retention schedule (refer to Appendix A) to provide a standard for maintaining necessary records as required by applicable state and federal law, and to the extent ...

Record retention and records management policies are key elements for a company’s data protection program. Numerous recently enacted, or amended, data protection laws adopt data retention or storage ...

Miami University, in compliance with the Ohio Revised Code, has a Records Management Program for the purpose of ensuring proper scheduling, storage, and disposal of University records. Records include ...

Record retention refers to the storage of records no longer active. Some records such as birth and marriage certificates, discharge papers from the armed services, naturalization papers, wills, ...

For IT professionals, top management and their lawyers, the explosion in awareness and use of electronic documents in litigation presents great challenges. For example, the widespread use of business ...

A Michigan workplace safety inspector was in step with state record retention rules when he destroyed his handwritten notes and some emails associated with a controversial case in Port Huron, the ...

The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley regulations served as a wake-up call for CIOs to formalize document retention policies to meet compliance requirements. But regulatory demands-and the number of documents ...