Filed Under: Records
Question:
What happens to records following the required seven-year retention period?
Answer:
The Title IX regulations require that the records described in 34 C.F.R. § 106.45(b)(10) must be maintained for a period of seven years. The regulations do not specify what must or may happen to such records after the seven-year period has elapsed. In the Preamble to the regulations at 30411, the Department notes that “while the final regulations require records to be kept for seven years, nothing in the final regulations prevents recipients from keeping their records for a longer period of time if the recipient wishes or due to other legal obligations.”