28 Feb How Electronic Records Facilitate FOIA Compliance
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in PSL News
What is the relationship between records management and compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests? In short, it’s complicated.
Obviously, good records management is critical to meeting formal FOIA requests. It’s how staff can even find the information that’s being requested. Unfortunately, according to research published last year from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), just under half (49%) of respondents (which included Agency Records Officers and Chief FOIA Officers) have training programs that address the importance of working together collaboratively. Far less than half (38%) coordinate search terms to identify records.
Read the full post on our TransAccessDM blog.