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Nueces County faces records warehouse crunch; officials recommend scanning and shredding over building new facility
Summary
Officials showed photos of overloaded courthouse and warehouse storage and proposed hiring scanning/destruction staff, buying scanners, and outsourcing shredding as a lower‑cost alternative to building or renting new space, while warning historical retention rules limit destruction of older records.
County records staff told the commissioners court the county’s records warehouse and courthouse storage are at capacity and described options to address the backlog of boxes.
A presenter displayed photos showing boxes stacked in the district clerk’s office, aisles full at the records warehouse and piles awaiting destruction. Staff estimated roughly 21,149 boxes associated with the district clerk and about 7,000 boxes for the district attorney, and noted that only a small percent of those boxes represent permanent records.
Options considered: build, rent, or 'fix.' Building a new records…
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