SRC September Round-up

By Nova Dubovik on October 5, 2016. The State Records Committee heard an unprecedented seven appeals on September 8, 2016.  You can locate the Decisions and Orders on the State Records Committee website and the meeting minutes and public handouts on the Utah Public Notice Website. Clára v. Utah Transit Authority, Case No. 16-33, Description: The Petitioner requested email correspondences

Getting closer! Only 3 days until Everybody Wins! Records Management Teamwork. This is a conference that your team does not want to miss! Come together, learn together, and [possibly] win together! For the next 2 days we will highlight our all-star conference team players! Share the excitement with your team—the more the merrier! Registration is still open for in-person and online attendance,

County general schedule 1-25 Routine Activity Schedules will be removed from the website next week. As part of the General Schedule Update Project, we are gradually removing general schedules describing items which are not records according to GRAMA. This schedule is also too vague for use. Here is the schedule: Routine Activity Schedules (CO 1-25) These records are routine materials

What are the differences and how does a records officer respond to a Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) request versus a Subpoena (U.C. 63G-2-207).  This question consistently comes up at every GRAMA training and draws a lot of class discussion.  Recently, at the Records Access II: Focus Group Discussion, we had the pleasure of inviting Mr. Paul Tonks,

Do you get GRAMA requests for drafts? Do you wonder if your drafts are records or not? What about the classification of drafts? Look no further! Our wonderful Records Ombudsman, Rosemary Cundiff, has added an article to the Government Records Ombudsman website to help you analyze and classify the drafts created by your office. This guideline can help you understand

Two new pages were added to the Open Records Portal Help Center today: Upload Files Download / View Uploaded Files Each page includes instructions for both requesters and records officers. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks!

We’ve added a new page to the help section for the portal: Login. If you’re having problems logging in to the portal, this page may help. If not, let us know and we’ll work with you to get you logged in!

We’ve fixed the “Approve”/”Approve and Close” issue! Now, when you “Approve” a records request on the Open Records Portal, the request is considered completed and is closed automatically. Denying or referring the request will also close the request automatically. (You may always re-open the request if necessary.) Thank you to everyone for your feedback. We hope this change makes it

Two 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. 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

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