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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Ind. Courts - Vigo court records to be destroyed
Howard Greninger of the Terre Haute Trib-Star, reports today:
Maintaining court records, as well as documents for other county government offices, can generate a lot of paper.Last year the proposed destruction of some local court records led to a big brouhaha in Kentucky. Here are summaries of some of the ILB entries, in reverse order:Currently, the county is leasing space at Sixth Street and Wabash Avenue to store those documents during an interior renovation of the county’s 19th-century limestone courthouse.
Officials with the Indiana Supreme Court Division of State Court Administration met Thursday with county officials to review what documents could be destroyed, based on required schedules. Some documents can be destroyed after five years or less.
“We have 561 filed cabinets at Sixth and Wabash and we can reduce that by 275 cabinets,” said Vigo County Commissioner David Decker.
Decker said he would like to get a retired judge or lawyer to serve as an observer to help the county oversee the removal of documents not required for storage and that can be destroyed.
If there are any questions about any documents, the observer can set aside the documents to determine if they can be destroyed, Decker said. The process would take about four months, he said.
Any records required to be kept for storage of 10 years or more will be moved to a county-owned building at 13th and Crawford streets, Decker said. That building is 60- by 135-feet and is divided into four sections, one of which can hold juvenile court documents, he said.
The county also would work to restart a scanning program to scan all new court documents to reduce paper files, he said.
Large, bound historical court documents are planned to be returned the County Courthouse on the fifth floor, Decker said, once the courthouse renovation is complete.
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