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It’s time to spotlight another team that is making records management part of their office culture. It’s a daunting goal, but they’re excited to meet the challenge! The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) takes its obligation to protect student information very seriously. The Student Data Privacy program’s focus is (among other things) to ensure that student data are protected,

Meet Anthony Adams, records officer for the Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District. Anthony started with the district in late 2015 as the Executive Assistant and quickly embraced his role as the records officer. He completely reorganized the district’s retention schedule, and made sure that each record series created by the district was associated with an established retention schedule. Another

Meet Kathy James, Records Manager, and registrar for American Leadership Academy. Carol has been managing the school’s records for 8 years. Jordan said “I am the registrar here at the academy. Part of my job is to collect, record, and store official documents for each of our 1,800 students. I also am responsible to make sure that there are multiple

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

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

Meet Sara Danielson, Records Manager for the Utah Labor Commission. Sara handles all the Commission’s GRAMA requests, and assists each Commission division with records management. Sara has been a records officer for 20 years! Congratulations, Sara!   Successes and Challenges Sara’s favorite part of the job is when she is able to locate old records for constituents. We all know

This month’s spotlight is on Carol Miller, who works for the state of Utah in the Department of Human Services. Carol has a huge job but is always on top of it! I’ll let Carol explain more, in her own words:   I work for the Division of Child and Family Services as a program support specialist.  I’ve been working

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