Records Retention

Fall Online Training Coming!

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Mark Your Calendars! The Ohio Electronic Records Committee is tentatively planning an online training for November 4th, 2022 concerning records management best practices in the remote work environment. Records management and educating your offices about record retention requirements is more important than ever when considering the potential of records being handled outside of your office setting as well as how new technology, like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, may introduce new record retention complexities.

Additionally, the OhioERC would like to hear from you regarding what future trainings you would like to see offered from our group. Please fill out the following poll for us to collect your feedback:

For OERC's next training module, what topic would be of greatest interest to you?
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As always too, please go to our Trainings/Events page to see our interactive training modules and past presentations.

New Tip Sheet on Text Messaging Retention Available!

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The Ohio Electronic Records Committee (OhioERC) has published a new tip sheet: Tips for Text Messaging Retention! These tips highlight the potential records management concerns public offices and officials should consider when using text messaging for government business. The tip sheet includes questions that can help determine if the text is a public record, the risks and liabilities involved with texting, best practices for government offices to implement, and the pros and cons of allowing employees to text on their personal devices versus providing them with government-issued devices. If your government office uses text messaging then you should check this out!