What Larry says is absolutely correct.

Remember that what may not be of primary interest to you or your department
may be vital to someone else.  Vital records have a primary value (value to
you and your department) and a secondary value (value to others).  They also
will have timing associated with those values (some immediately after the
disaster and some with varying scheduled dates after.)

On 6/27/07, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On 6/26/07, Basore, Rhonda K. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Is there any language or rules that states for disaster protection of
> > records, the records should not be stored within so many miles of an
> > organizations offices.
>
>
> No rules, unless you're a Federal Agency, or a Contractor doing work to
> one... and then it comes from 36CFR, Part 1200-1250
>
> It's more a case of an application of "best practices" or "sound business
> practices", and it has to be based on whee you're physically
> located.  With
> you being in Berkeley, the comments I made in this post about Vital
> Records
> may be of interest to you:
>
> http://snipr.com/1nm41
>
> Some of the primary concerns for agencies charged with the responsibility
> of
> managing public records are above and beyond what private businesses are
> faced with, simply because the nature of what is contained in many of the
> official records managed by cities and counties.  You have business
> licenses, birth and death records, police reports, deeds and other
> property
> documents, and many other classes of records that are critical to the
> citizens of your community following an emergency or other catastrophic
> incident.
>
> Larry
>
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> Danville, CA
> RIM Professional since 1972
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