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Vendor outlines records-retention inventory, scanning and destruction options for Wichita County
Summary
Chris Coriel of Records Consultants Inc. told Wichita County commissioners the county likely holds hundreds of thousands of images across ledgers, deed books and boxed case files and outlined a phased, box-by-box inventory, classification, digitization and destruction service priced by the box.
Chris Coriel, vice president of sales for Records Consultants Inc., told the Wichita County Commissioners Court the county has a large and mixed archive of inactive records and described a standard service that inventories, classifies, digitizes and destroys records by the box. “Our services are by the box,” Coriel said, describing the firm’s standard approach.
Coriel told commissioners his San Antonio-based company has worked with local governments across Texas and the U.S. and partners with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission on retention schedule compliance. He said the state maintains a set of retention schedules and related bulletins that specify how long record series must be kept and that counties present a particular challenge because each elected official is a records management officer for their own office.
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