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RDA: 10108
Database ID: 1377
Record Series Title: SEALED FILES -ADOPTION RECORDS
Record Series Abstract: THESE RECORDS DOCUMENT THE ORIGINAL IDENTITY (THE ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE) OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION THAT CAUSED A NEW LEGAL IDENTITY AND REPLACEMENT BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO BE CREATED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL. Includes forms: REQ. FOR FACTS FROM ADOPTION (PH-1141), CERT. OF ADOP.(PH-1248),APP. FOR NEW CERT. OF BIRTH BY SUBSEQUENT MARRIAGE OF PARENTS (PH-1673),CERTIFICATION OF BIRTH (PH-1997), APP. FOR RPT. OF FOREIGN BIRTH OF ADOPTED CHILD (PH-2591), NOTIFICATION OF ORDER ETC.
Record Series Active: Yes
Cut Off at End of: Calendar Year
If Other, Explain:
Total Retention: 0 Years 0 Months
Retention End Action: Permanent
Disposition Notes: THE FILES ARE TO BE CUT OFF AT THE END OF EACH CLENDAR YEAR THEN;ALL PAPER COPIES ARE TO BE SCANNED/CONVERTED. BOTH PAPER AND ELECTONIC RECORDS ARE MAINTAINED PERMANENTLY UNDER SEAL IN THE OFFICE OF VITAL RECORDS AS STATED IN TCA 68-3-313.
View Signed Form: Form Not Received
Worksheet
Worksheet ID: 1377
Record Location: Paper: Office of Vital Records 710 James Robertson Parkway, 1st Floor Andrew Johnson Tower 421 5th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37243 Electronic: OIR Data Center
File Arrangement: Numeric, by calendar year and certificate number
Media Format Generated: Paper
Media Format Stored: Paper/Electronic
Date Range: 1939-present
Annual Accumulation: 50 linear feet paper, 1 gigabyte per year
Current Volume: 2200 linear feet; 100 gigabytes electronic
Record Value: Administrative, Legal
Audit Requirements: State
Reference Frequency:
Current Year per Month: 3
Past Year: 3
2 - 5 Years: 3
Over 5 Years: 3
Data Update Frequency: Daily
Information Shared Outside of State: Yes
If Shared, List Agencies: Social Security Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FBI, Consumer Product Safety, reciprocating States Office of Vital Records.
Essential Record: TRUE
Essential Record Stored: Office of Vital Records 710 James Robertson Parkway, 1st Floor Andrew Johnson Tower 421 5th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37243
Essential Record Media Type: Electronic
Confidential: Yes
Confidential Legal Citation: 68-3-313, 36-1-126(d)(8)and(9)
Media Recommendation: Current Format
Media Recommendation Other:
Agency Retention: Permanent
Agency Retention - Years Active: Permanent
Agency Retention - Years Inactive: NA
Records Center Retention Period: None
Final Disposition after Retention Expires: Keep as Electronic
Legal Citation: 36-1-126 (d) (8) AND (9); 68-3-311; 68-3-205; 68-3-313
Record Sample: No Sample
Legal Documentation: No Legal Documentation
Electronic Records Plan Inventory
System Name: Vital Records Information Systems Management (VRISM) for data and Tennessee Vital Records Image Processing System (TVRS) for images
IT-ABC Number: DC64S
Hardware Description: VRISM resides in the VMWare environment at OIR Data Center, web, application and database. TVRS is a Unix server with a MSAR (RAID) storage system over 2 terabytes storage capacity.
Software Description: VRISM is a proprietary web based vital records software product of ManTech International customized for Tennessee. Oracle is the database management software. TVRS is a Filenet imaging system.
System Location: OIR Data Center
Backup Procedures: Daily data backup with weekly image tape back up by OIR.
Disaster Recovery: Bronze level, redundant systems located at secondary OIR Data Center. Back up data/images are loded onto redundant systems. Boot redundant systems monthly. Test annually.
Data Migration Description: Data migration typically occurs every 5-10 years as advancements are made in technology.
Metadata Description: Event type, date of event, first-middle-last name, county of event, certificate number, index number. These core data elements enable retrieval of the vital records image and complete data of the record searched. Paper copies of certificates are filed by certificate number by year. Electronic images of certiicates are indexed by year, certificate number and certificate/file indicator. Paper and electronic cross indices exist for both systems for certificate location.
Contact Information
Contact Name: Shannon Potts
Job Title: Records Officer
Address 1: 5th FL Andrew Johnson Tower
Address 2: 710 James Robertson Parkway
City: Nashville
Zip: 37243
Phone: 615.741.4411
Email: Shannon.Potts@tn.gov
Agency: Dept. of Health
Agency Head: John J. Dreyzehner, MD, MPH, FACOEM
Director: Lori B. Ferranti, PhD, MBA, RN
Allotment Code: 37320
Status
Action Requested: New RDA
Comments
  Date Comments
Records Management Division (RMD): 04-09-2015 No recommended changes
Tennessee State Libary and Archives: 04-09-2015 No recommended changes.
Comptroller Audit Review: 2015-04-09 We have reviewed RDA 10108 from an audit standpoint. We concur with the recommended retention and disposition specifications.
Agency: 04-23-2015 Agency concur. Thank you-
RMD Director Recomendations: 02-03-2016 RDA 10108 is a request to revise an RDA. The retention period will remain permanent and the format will be paper/electronic. the revision updates the Abstract and consolidates the paper and electronic RDAs for the same records series under one RDA. Recommend approval of request to revise RDA 10108
Signed Form Received: 2016-02-01
PRC Meeting Date: 02-25-2016
PRC Comments: PRC approves RDA 10108.
PRC Action: Approved
RDA History
ID RDA PRC Reviewed PRC Action
1377 10108 2016-02-25 Approved
2101 10108 0000-00-00 Pending