How is GSA handling the Records Retention Policy related to the Open Government Citizen Engagement Tool?
GSA’s considers the Open Government Citizen Engagement Tool to be part of the “continuous improvement” element of GSA’s ongoing input to management improvement processes and will adhere to the same disposition as other GSA records. As such, the tool itself doesn’t require a schedule. However, the aggregated comments and ideas do require a schedule for record deletion. GSA will submit a record retention schedule for the tool that will save the top 25% of ideas and comments (determined by number of votes and other criteria of value to be determined). GSA will delete the remaining lower 75% of aggregate ideas/comments annually. All federal public websites must comply with existing laws and regulations related to the management of public web records. This includes the need for organizations to comply with NARA guidance related to web records issued on December 17, 2005. See more information about Web records at http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/reqs_bestpractices/ laws_regs/web_records.shtml.
