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    Citywide Records Retention Schedules

    Metadata Updated: March 29, 2025

    A. SUMMARY The Index to Records lists records City and County of San Francisco officials and departments keep and the length of time these records must be kept. You can find out more about the Index to Records on sf.gov.

    B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED The records retention schedules are determined by each department and then provided to City Administrator's Office on a regular basis. The dataset is then manually combined and uploaded to the open data portal.

    C. UPDATE PROCESS As departments update their record retention schedules, this dataset will be manually updated.

    D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET To see record retention schedules for a particular department, make sure to filter using the "department" field.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SFO JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 29, 2025
    Publisher data.sfgov.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/hy3m-hqsn
    Data First Published 2024-12-20
    Data Last Modified 2025-01-24
    Category City Management and Ethics
    Public Access Level public
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.sfgov.org/data.json
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    Harvest Source Title SFO JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/hy3m-hqsn
    License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b3c2aa7c06a69b56c7bd0ff04d6b5e832f21b0a27159228d8cc16344c38b1099
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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