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Commissioners approve destruction schedule for juvenile detention records under Idaho retention law
Summary
The board approved three resolutions to destroy selected temporary and inactive juvenile-detention records under Idaho Code Section 31-871C, covering (1) temporary facility records retained two years after a juvenile’s 18th birthday, (2) permanent incident reports from 2011–2014 retained at least 10 years, and (3) temporary records from 2020–2022.
The Bonner County Board of Commissioners approved three resolutions to authorize destruction of certain juvenile-detention records in accordance with Idaho Code Section 31-871C.
A county justice-services representative told the board that staff and the county legal reviewer had classified records into retention categories. The three approved actions were:
- Resolution ordering destruction of temporary juvenile-detention facility records retained for two years after a juvenile’s 18th birthday; these include booking sheets, promises to appear, police reports, medical screenings and related temporary items. - Resolution ordering destruction of permanent juvenile-detention incident reports for the years 2011–2014, which legal review deemed inactive and eligible for destruction after at least 10 years. - Resolution ordering destruction of temporary juvenile-detention facility records for 2020–2022 (shift summaries, cell locations, transport sheets, handwritten and cash logs, guest registries, grievances, fire drills, maintenance logs, facility searches and fleet reports) after the two-year retention period.
The presenter said the proposed destructions had been reviewed by Bill Wilson and approved by legal; a public question raised whether grievances would remain obtainable by public-records request after destruction — staff said the retention schedule followed state statute and that grievance records are temporary and were reviewed as part of the records-retention determination.
Each resolution passed on a roll-call vote with no recorded opposition in the meeting minutes.
