NYC mayor issues E-records directive.

• Position: GOVERNMENT RECORDS

Bill de Blasio, New York City's mayor, has issued an executive order to establish standards for proper electronic records management for city agencies through the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS). The city of 8.4 million residents needs to dispose of 700,000 boxes of documents by 2017.

"This transition will promote improved performance and transparency," the mayor's directive states. "It will be one component of a sensible, comprehensive and compliant information governance program."

'The mayor's directive includes the following guidelines:

* Ensure the preservation of records that have continuing administrative, fiscal, legal, and historical or research value

* Make possible the useful processing of information

* Reduce records storage, equipment, and litigation costs, as well as the costs of other city resources

* Improve operations by documenting agency actions and decisions

* Engage all agency staff in uniform records management practices

* Facilitate access to information in the most efficient manner and at the lowest possible cost

* Ensure agencies operate effectively by appropriately disposing of records that have no archival and minimal value to the city

According to Politico New York, the city...