What Comes After the December 31 Deadline?
The Office and Management and Budget (OMB) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have been pursuing a years-long quest to get the federal government to transition into electronic records management, with significant deadlines [...]
How to Handle Records That Are Private, Confidential, Classified, and/or Top-Secret
Records management is challenging even with just the normal types of documents and records most organizations generate. Add in records that contain information that must be protected – because they contain protected personal information, trade [...]
Back to the Basics: 5 Things to Remember about NARA’s Dec. 31, 2022 Deadline
After a yearslong process of scrambling to meet a series of increasingly ambitious records management deadlines, federal agencies now find the next major deadline nearly here. It all started back in 2012 with OMB M-12-18, [...]
Defensible Destruction 102: How to Create a Defensible Process
Destroying records inappropriately can land any organization in hot water. For example, getting rid of a record that is subject to regulatory retention requirements or a legal hold can lead to serious consequences. That means [...]
What Causes Resistance to Electronic Records Management – and What to Do About It
Federal agencies have been ambitiously pursuing a digital agenda for several years now, working hard to meet federal mandates and modernize their records management to make greater use of digital technology. Along the way, they [...]
NARA in Talks with OMB to Postpone M-19-21 Deadline: What You Need to Know
As federal agencies face down a rapidly approaching deadline for managing records in electronic format by December 31, 2022, a reprieve may be in sight. In comments made at the 930GOV conference in August, National [...]
What Does Modern Information Management Infrastructure Look Like?
Increasingly, today’s information management is about taking advantage of opportunities inherent in the information rather than just formulaically following pre-existing rules designed principally around compliance. To be sure, risk mitigation is always going to be [...]