October 3, 8-10 a.m. Electronic Records Destruction, Sound Transit Building

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013

 

Time: 8:00-9:00 a.m. breakfast and networking; 9:00-10:00 a.m. program

 

Cost: $10.00

 

Location: Sound Transit, 625 Union Station, 5^th Ave. South, Seattle, WA

 

 

Program Title:  Electronic Records Destruction

 

Description:  Hear from two different organizations, King County and Russell Investments, on how they are properly disposing of their electronic information.

 

Speakers Profile:

 

Kathy Brown is a Records Management Consultant with Russell Investments. She provides records management expertise to Russell’s global enterprise to ensure adherence to legal and regulatory compliance and best practices. Kathy consults to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of records systems by creating, advising and training on record policies and procedures. She develops and delivers training programs to assure that all company personnel with records management responsibility are provided with the appropriate information and guidance to aid in their compliance to record keeping regulations. She contributes to the strategic direction of the Corporate Records program. 

 

Gail Snow joined King County in 2012 as the Records and Information Manager she oversees six individuals and placing the final touches on the King’s County Electronic Records System. Snow previously worked at the City of Seattle for ten years and with the EPA as a contract records manager in several states including Colorado, Montana and Washington. Gail holds a BS in Political Science from Colorado State University and a Masters degree in Library Science from Emporia State University.

 

 

Register:  The program is open to all professionals interested in learning about managing records. Please register NO LATER THAN Tuesday, October 1^st..  Register online at http://www.armaseattle.org/ or register via email at registration@armaseattle.org (include your name, organization, phone #, and # of guests if any).

 

Directions:

Taking transit to Sound Transit

Bus routes serving Fourth or Fifth avenues at South Jackson Street and tunnel routes serving the International District/Chinatown Station in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel will take you near Sound Transit's Union Station at 401 South Jackson Street. Link light rail also serves the International District Station. Leaving the transit tunnel via the north exit, walk west to the Union Station front entrance, located on South Jackson Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues.

 

Driving Directions

Southbound on Interstate 5 to Downtown Seattle

Take the Bellevue, Spokane, I-90 exit (#164). Move to the right hand lane. Take the Dearborn St off-ramp and make a right onto Dearborn St. Stay in right lane and follow street to 4th Avenue S. Turn right on 4th Avenue S. The entrance to the Union Station parking garage is on the right at the next light, across from the Weller Street pedestrian bridge. To reach the main entrance to Union Station, follow 4th Avenue S to S Jackson Street, turn right and then another immediate right to the driveway.

Northbound on Interstate 5 to Downtown Seattle

Take the Dearborn, James and Madison Streets Exit (#164A). Take the Dearborn St off-ramp and make a left onto Dearborn St. Stay in right lane and follow street to 4th Avenue S. Turn right on 4th Avenue S. The entrance to the Union Station parking garage is on the right at the next light, across from the Weller Street pedestrian bridge. To reach the main entrance to Union Station, follow 4th Avenue S to S Jackson Street, turn right and then another immediate right to the driveway.

Westbound on Interstate 90 to Downtown Seattle

Follow I-90 until it touches down at 4th Avenue S. Turn left on 4th Avenue S. There is an entrance to the Union Station parking garage on the right after making the turn. The second garage entrance is after the next light, across from the Weller Street pedestrian bridge. To reach the main entrance to Union Station, follow 4th Avenue S to S Jackson Street, turn right and then another immediate right to the driveway.

Parking garage entrances

There are two entrances to the Union Station Parking garage, which stretches three blocks underground along Fourth Avenue S. The south entrance is just north of the 4th Avenue exit ramp from I-90. The north entrance is closest to Sound Transit's offices in Union Station (this entrance is immediately across from the Weller Street Pedestrian Bridge). To reach the main building entrance and Sound Transit offices, walk north along Fourth Avenue S to the Jackson Street side of Union Station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

US Government still struggles with recordkeeping issues!

In November 2011, President Barack Obama instructed by Presidential Memorandum to reform records management policies and practices. He instructed the agencies to “develop a 21^st-century framework for managing federal records and information.”

 

A new report by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the US government’s recordkeeper, raises serious questions it says most agencies are still at “high” or “moderate” risk of mishandling or prematurely disposing of crucial records and information. The report reiterates main deficiencies as the lack of senior management support, inadequate resources and funding, and a broad confusion about how to implement and measure records management safeguards.

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