California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 13 - Department of Child Support Services
Chapter 1 - Program Administration
Subchapter 1 - Operations
Article 5 - Records Management
Section 111460 - Record Disposal

Universal Citation: 22 CA Code of Regs 111460

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) Each local child support agency shall ensure that the records maintained pursuant to Section 111420 are disposed of as specified below.

(b) Confidential records shall be destroyed in one of the following manners:

(1) Shredding.

(2) Recycling which results in destruction of the records.

(3) Burning.

(4) Erasure.

(5) Obliteration.

(6) Burial.

(7) Permanently deleting, erasing, and/or purging electronic, microfilm, and microfiche records from computers, hard-drives, floppy disks, magnetic media, and other software programs. Electronic documents that have been printed or reproduced into a hard copy shall be destroyed as specified in subparagraphs (1) through (6) above.

(c) Records destroyed as specified in subsection (b)(6), shall be obliterated in a manner that ensures the information contained in these records is indecipherable prior to burial.

(d) Records containing criminal history information not related to the parents failure to provide support, shall be destroyed as specified in subsection (b) within four years and four months of the date the case was closed.

(e) If the records specified in this Article are destroyed by a third party, a local child support agency shall include a confidentiality clause in the contract with the third party to ensure record confidentiality through destruction.

1. New section filed 6-26-2001 as an emergency; operative 7-1-2001 (Register 2001, No. 26). Pursuant to Family Code section 17306(e)(2), a Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 12-28-2001 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. New section refiled 12-18-2001 as an emergency; operative 12-30-2001 (Register 2001, No. 51). Pursuant to Family Code section 17306(e)(2), a Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-28-2002 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. Certificate of Compliance as to 12-18-2001 order transmitted to OAL 6-11-2002 and filed 7-24-2002 (Register 2002, No. 30).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 17306, 17310 and 17312, Family Code. Reference: Section 17531, Family Code.

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