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Rockydonovang
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Trump allows ICE to delete records of death and sexual assault
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/ice-plans-start-destroying-records-immigrant
ICE has asked for permission to begin routinely destroying 11 kinds of records, including those related to sexual assaults, solitary confinement and even deaths of people in its custody. Other records subject to destruction include alternatives to detention programs, regular detention monitoring reports, logs about the people detained in ICE facilities, and communications from the public reporting detention abuses. ICE proposed various timelines for the destruction of these records ranging from 20 years for sexual assault and death records to three years for reports about solitary confinement.
Why?
NARA has provisionally approved ICE’s proposal and its explanations for doing so are troubling. In cases of sexual assault and death, for example, NARA states that these records “do not document significant actions of Federal officials.” It’s hard to believe that the actions of a federal official are not significant in the death or sexual assault of an individual who is in federal immigration custody. NARA also posited that in cases of sexual assault, that the “information is highly sensitive and does not warrant retention.”
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Re: Trump allows ICE to delete records of death and sexual assault
Originally posted by Rockydonovang
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/ice-plans-start-destroying-records-immigrantWhy?
I can answer this.
For certain government records, they must be retained, by law, for x (depends on what it is) years. Usually this deals with sensitive, financial, and classified information. Retaining any longer than that is not required.
Failing to purge the records, both paper and digital, can get costly and unwieldy so as long as the records are not of import, they can and should be sanitized.
For e-mails, this ranges by certain regulations:
FOIA: 3 years
HIPAA: 7 Years
https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/
In other words, this is another bullshit anti-Trump character assassination attempt. Most regular Americans are not going to be familiar with Federal data retention and media sanitization policies so this works really well as the appeal to emotions logical fallacy. "OMG!!! HE'S DELETING BAD GUYS' DATA!!!"