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Council adopts resolution to follow state municipal records schedule and approves destruction of specified police records
Summary
Millersville council adopted a resolution affirming the borough will follow the state municipal records retention schedule and voted to destroy specific police records listed in a separate resolution; officials said many police records had not been purged for decades.
The Millersville Borough Council adopted a resolution indicating the borough’s intent to follow the state-issued municipal records retention schedule and approved a separate resolution authorizing destruction of specified police records.
Officials said it has been many years since the borough followed the state schedule; one council member noted the police department still held case files and arrest reports dating to the 1960s. “We literally have records from the sixties,” the police chief said. Borough staff told council that following the state schedule protects the borough from unnecessarily retaining records that might be subject to right-to-know requests and that permanent records will remain.
Council voted to accept the resolution indicating intent to follow the municipal records schedule and then approved the separate resolution listing police records designated for destruction. Officials described the action as a routine but overdue clean-up of long-accumulated files and said staff have been marking boxes for destruction dates as part of ongoing records-management practices.
Council members indicated the destructions will follow the state schedule and that certain permanent documents will be retained. The approval authorizes staff to proceed with the specific police-department purges identified in the resolution approved at the meeting.
