I am betting that all records of a Secretary or agency head created
during their tenure are considered permanent.  Now granted we are
talking about the feds which at one time had different retention
periods depending upon the media.  But I believe times have changed.

My questions which no one seems to be talking about - where was the
agency records manager or the archivists at NARA when the former
Secretary left government service?  Did anyone let the powers that be
know that these records are permanent and must be preserved?  If they
were told she didn't have a government email account red flags should
have popped up immediately.

Bruce White, CRM, PMP
Virginia Beach, VA
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Peter Kurilecz
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> Here is the Federal Records Act, passed in 1950: The head of each Federal
> agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper
> documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions,
> procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to
> furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights
> of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s
> activities. (44 U.S. Code § 3101) So the question would seem to be: Are
> emails records? The answer is obvious — and was so long before Hillary
> Clinton took over at Foggy Bottom. Here is the State Department’s own
> treatment of the question from 1995:

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