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With the NYS Education Department’s introduction of the Seal of Civic Readiness, school districts and educators are seeking community partners to assist their students in fulfilling the requirements for this new graduation seal. Local government archives are uniquely situated as repositories of invaluable historical knowledge and records as well as important locations within their communities. Join us as we present the guidelines and learning standards for achieving this seal and discuss the opportunities for local governments to make their records available to educators and provide students with engaging learning experiences.

Local governments and state agencies use email to communicate with staff, circulate internal documents, authorize actions, approve payments, interpret terms of contracts, correspond with the public, and in many other ways to support business. Email used for business will contain records that governments should identify, retain, and dispose like records in other formats.

This webinar will provide an overview of key areas for developing email policy, including access, discovery, retention, disposition, storage, preservation, security, and appropriate use. The discussion will include strategies for policy creation that focus on end user cooperation, system automation, retention, and disposition.