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Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett
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RDA: 11174
Database ID: 2388
Record Series Title: Active and Inactive Employee Records
Record Series Abstract: The official personnel records for each court system employee who is actively engaged in state service and the inactive personnel records for employees that have separated from the State of Tennessee.
Record Series Active: Yes
Cut Off at End of: Other
If Other, Explain: Files are active until an employee has separated from state service
Total Retention: 65 Years 0 Months
Retention End Action: Destroy
Disposition Notes: Active files are maintained in the office of the Human Resource manager. Upon employee's separation from state service, the files are maintained in paper format for 5 years. Upon cutoff, the records are scanned and stored on an internal AOC server; hard copies are to be destroyed upon verification that the records were properly scanned and uploaded onto the internal AOC server. They are then maintained in agency for 65 years and then destroyed by purging them from the server.
View Signed Form: Form Not Received
Worksheet
Worksheet ID: 2388
Record Location: Administrative Office of the Courts 511 Union Street, Suite 600 Nashville, TN 37219
File Arrangement: Alpha
Media Format Generated: Both
Media Format Stored: Paper/Electronic
Date Range: January 1, 1960 to current
Annual Accumulation: 8 cubic feet and 0.5 gigabytes
Current Volume: 25 cubic feet and 7 gigabytes 22 cubic feet of separated files
Record Value: Administrative, Legal
Audit Requirements: State
Reference Frequency:
Current Year per Month: 40
Past Year: 230
2 - 5 Years: 1000
Over 5 Years: 3000
Data Update Frequency: Yearly
Information Shared Outside of State: No
If Shared, List Agencies:
Essential Record: Yes - Duplicate
Essential Record Stored: Original court system employee records are maintained in paper format for as long as the employee is actively serving the state. Upon separation from the state, the files are kept for 5 years in the Human Resource Managers office. After those 5 years, the file is scanned. An electronic duplicate is made and stored on the AOC server. The original is then destroyed. The records are kept on the server for 65 years and are then electronically purged from the system.
Essential Record Media Type: Electronic
Confidential: No
Confidential Legal Citation:
Media Recommendation: Current Format
Media Recommendation Other:
Agency Retention: 65 years
Agency Retention - Years Active:
Agency Retention - Years Inactive:
Records Center Retention Period:
Final Disposition after Retention Expires: Destroy
Legal Citation:
Record Sample: No Sample
Legal Documentation: No Legal Documentation
Electronic Records Plan Inventory
System Name: HRIS
IT-ABC Number:
Hardware Description: Windows Server 2008 R2, Standalone HP Server
Software Description: Oracle DB, .Net Windows application
System Location: Administrative Office of the Courts Data Center 511 Union Street, 5th Floor Nashville, TN 37219
Backup Procedures: Employing Veritas Netbackup data is backed up on the following schedule: complete backups occur on Fridays, differential backups are run Monday through Thursday, each week. Back up data is stored on EMC Data Domain disc storage. Data is replicated to remote second Data Domain nightly.
Disaster Recovery: Sufficient hardware and virtual capacity exists in both locations in order to redeploy stored data and permit continuity of operations in accordance with our disaster recovery plan.
Data Migration Description: HRIS data resides in an Oracle database and will be migrated, as needed, to other environments by the Administrative Office of the Courts Database Administration staff using Data Pump Export and Import.
Metadata Description: 193 total fields for HR system data. Critical data elements include ssn, pos_num, last_name, first_name, mid_init, addr_line_1, city, state, zip, birth_date, anniv_date, hire_date, home_phone, office_phone, srvc_grp_code, emp_status, racf_id, person_class, marital_status, us_citizen, resign_date, term_date,sic_leave_bank_ind, ever_contact, emer_phone, ann_bal, sick_bal, comp_bal, parent_ssn, email, employee_id, tran_id, tran_type, hours, begin_time, end_time, request_date, requested_by, approved_by, approval_date, reason, disapprove_reason, status, class_code, pos_class, title, ot_type, grade
Contact Information
Contact Name: Ceesha Lofton
Job Title: Legal Project Assistant / Records Officer
Address 1: Nashville City Center, Suite 600
Address 2: 511 Union Street
City: Nashville
Zip: 37219
Phone: 615-741-2687
Email: ceesha.lofton@tncourts.gov
Agency: Administrative Office of the Courts
Agency Head: Deborah Taylor Tate
Director: Rachel Harmon
Allotment Code:
Status
Action Requested: Revision
Comments
  Date Comments
Records Management Division (RMD): 03-29-2018 No recommended changes. Update: Agency requested Retention End Action be changed to destroy to match disposition notes and worksheet. They accidentally clicked permanent and missed it when submitting.
Tennessee State Libary and Archives: 03-29-2018 No recommended changes.
Comptroller Audit Review: 2018-03-29 We have reviewed RDA 11174 from an audit standpoint. We concur with the recommended retention and disposition specifications.
Agency: 04-03-2018 Thank you.
RMD Director Recomendations: 04-06-2018 RDA 11174 is a request to revise an RDA. The retention period will remain sixty-five years and destroy. The format will be paper/electronic. Abstract, Disposition Notes, and Worksheet have been updated. Recommend approval of request to revise RDA 11174.
Signed Form Received: 2018-04-05
PRC Meeting Date: 04-25-2018
PRC Comments: PRC approves RDA 11174.
PRC Action: Approved
RDA History
ID RDA PRC Reviewed PRC Action
2137 11174 2016-06-22 Approved
2388 11174 2018-04-25 Approved