PART III

Records Management Principles for State Agencies and Local Governments

How Can Local Government Organizations Gauge the Effectiveness of Their Records Management Initiatives?1

The following are the attributes of effective local government IG initiatives:

Efficiency: The agency creates the records that it needs in the normal course of business that are required to satisfy its legal, administrative, fiscal, and other legitimate business purposes and avoids creating unnecessary records. Central elements of an efficient records management program include the following conditions:

images The scope of records retained meets audit requirements.

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