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Trustees press for validated backups and disaster-recovery language in district records policy
Summary
Board members discussed adding disaster-recovery and validated-backup requirements to district-records policy to reduce ransomware risk; staff said some systems are cloud-based under vendor SLAs, and trustees asked policy and IT to draft administrative regulations for testing and backup cadence.
Trustees at the Jan. 14 Redwood City School Board meeting discussed strengthening district policy on records retention and backups to reduce the risk from ransomware or accidental deletion.
During discussion of policy 3580 (district records), trustees argued the board should direct staff to require not only routine backups but periodic validation (restore tests) so the district can recover payroll, HR and…
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