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A legally-Compliant Records Retention Schedule Helps Your Organization:
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Avoid fines, penalties, and legal risk
Comply with federal and state requirements
Safely destroy valueless records
Reduce litigation exposure
Support your data privacy programs
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Legal Requirements for Records Retention . . . The Three-Year Presumption!
A large number of records managers are responsible for researching and analyzing legal requirements for records maintained by their organizations. The process of performing this legal research was discussed in an earlier article.1 This article deals with the analysis...
Records Retention Rules: the Governing Authority
Records Retention Rules: the Governing Authority By Karen Sampson -- Scenarios By Sampson How an organization manages retention and disposition of business records determines if records add value to the enterprise or if they become a liability. A records...
What Is a Record?
According to ARMA international, a record is any recorded information, regardless of medium or characteristics, made or received by an organization that is evidence of its operations, and has value requiring its retention for a specific period of time....