IARA County/Local Records Management - Are you a Records Custodian?

Greetings County/Local Agencies,

All county/local government agencies create records, but who is responsible for keeping them? The answer is YOU as a records custodian.

Records Custodian · (re-kərds kə-ˈstō-dē-ən) · Noun:
Any employee of a county or local government office, public library, public or charter school/system, law enforcement agency, or other governmental entity who has been assigned the responsibility of managing the public records created or received by their office.

As a records custodian, you have 2 partners:

your County Commission of Public Records & the Indiana Archives & Records Administration (IARA) 

IARA can develop rules for records management and help you make decisions on how to apply them. Your County Commission can approve and document what happens to those records.

In the end, though, it's you, the Records Custodian, who cares for the records, follows the retention requirements, and makes records management happen!

The County/Local Records Custodian Handbook will provide you with simple, clear tools and guidelines to get that job done.

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The last month of 2021 is here, December!

 

AMY CHRISTIANSEN

Records Management Liaison

Indiana Archives and Records Administration

o: 812-929-3882

e: achristiansenjanicki@iara.in.gov

w: www.in.gov/iara

a: 402 W Washington St, Room W472, Indianapolis, IN 46204

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