According to Government Code, Section 14740, California’s Records Management Program is designed to “ apply efficient and economical management methods to the creation, utilization, maintenance, retention, preservation, and disposal of state records”. Effective Records Management ensures that records are kept only as long as they have some administrative, fiscal, or legal value. When records no longer fulfill the value for which they were created, they should be destroyed unless they also have some historic or research significance. If that is the case the records should be preserved by an appropriate historical agency. Staff members should realize that an effective records management program is not only cost effective, it will also.
