Texas Administrative Code
Title 13 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Part 1 - TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION
Chapter 7 - LOCAL RECORDS
Subchapter C - STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS
Section 7.78 - Destruction of Electronic Records
Universal Citation: 13 TX Admin Code § 7.78
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) Electronic records may be destroyed only in accordance with the Local Government Code, § 202.001.
(b) Each local government must ensure that:
(1) electronic records eligible for
destruction are disposed of in a manner that ensures protection of any
confidential information; and
(2)
electronic storage media used for electronic records containing confidential
information is not reused if the previously recorded information can be
compromised in any way through reuse.
(c) For the court ordered expungement of information recorded on Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) electronic storage media, all copies of the information must be destroyed wherever it exists, including any record, index, or reference to the expunged information on other electronic storage media. Methods for expunging information from WORM electronic storage media include:
(1) overwriting the
information to obliterate the original data, leaving no evidence of the
original information; or
(2)
rewriting all the indices, pages, or documents, other than the expunged
information, onto new electronic storage media and physically destroying the
old electronic storage media.
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