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Assembly Bill 1466 – Does Your County Have the Tools & Resources to be Compliant?
About AB-1466 Assembly Bill 1466 (AB-1466) was one of 31 housing-related bills passed back in September, 2021—a package that the Governor’s office stated was focused on “streamlining the building of new homes, breaking down barriers to build more affordable housing,...
“Paperless” Enterprise Initiative – What is Your Vision and are You Prepared?
During an ARMA meeting, held after hours at a newly renovated local museum, the docent on the tour told a story of the architect expressing his extreme displeasure at the sight of papers stacked on the museum staff’s desks. He reportedly said “There should be no...
Do You Know ARMA’s Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles?
As we get closer to the California Privacy Protection Act’s enforcement in January of 2023, organizations should look to The Principles of ARMA International to see if and how their Records and Information Programs are in compliance with CRPA. Published by ARMA...
Bear Markets Heighten Risk of Audit & Litigation
Why do Bear Markets increase the risk of litigation and audit? We've seen this play out before. When Wall Street was booming leading up to the housing and financial crisis of 2008, the U.S. financial system seemed sanguine, so regulators and investors saw little...
Hanlon’s Razor – Never Attribute to Malice That Which Can be Adequately Explained by Stupidity
Is your organization prepared to respond to a request to be forgotten by one of your customers? Did you know such a request is their right according to the European Union’s GDPR and California’s CCPA/CPRA? Is your organization prepared to provide all responsive...
Zettabytes! Oh No!
“While physical volume of records will continue to be reduced through greater and greater information packing density, the number of records grows faster than the rate of disposal, and the need for maintaining accuracy of information, effective indexing, correct...
Business Data and Information Governance: Where Does Your Organization Stand?
Business Data and Information Governance are a crucial tandem for the modern organization, but each successful company has their own way of identifying meaningful data, while parsing out the clutter. In a broadcast by National Public Radio, a major West Coast...
COVID-19 Relief Funding Deadlines – Does Your District Have a Roadmap to Utilize ESSER Funds?
When COVID-19 closed schools across the nation in 2020 and 2021, Congress passed a trio of stimulus bills that totaled $190.5 billion in relief to help offset the educational disruption caused by the pandemic. The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency...
Celebrating 41 Years of Service and Solutions – Western Integrated Systems
Today marks the 41st anniversary of Western Integrated Systems, a business started by owner and founder Jim Hughes. Jim purchased the genesis of the present firm in 1981 from Exxon Office Systems, and continues to provide cutting-edge digital transformation solutions...
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