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Monday, 17 September 2007 23:49

Court Executive Officer Clarifies Document Shredding Policies

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slide3At Monday’s Amador County Administrative Committee meeting, Supervisors Louis Boitano and Richard Forster were briefed on a couple of issues related to Amador County history: the County archives and the County museum. Recently,county staff had raised concerns about document shredding at the former Amador County courthouse where county archives are now stored. Amador County Superior Court Executive Officer Hugh Swift assured the supervisors that all documents older than 1911 must be retained in paper form, and that the court policy is to keep all records back to 1950 in paper form, to the extent possible.

Swift also stated that recent shredding of court documents has been limited to misdemeanor and small claims cases, traffic citations and internal memos through 1996. According to General Services Administration Director Jon Hopkins, countywide document storage space is limited and storage policies and facilities options need be explored.  Documents created after 1911 may be copied and stored electronically if they meet the legal requirements, although the court has not begun that method of archiving.

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