[Added 11-25-2009 by Ord. No. MC-4510]
All hardcopy and electronic documents of the City of Camden that are required by law to be preserved, disposed of and/or retained shall be done so by way of the City's electronic document management system as administered by the Municipal Clerk's office pursuant to § 7-14 of the Camden Code.
[Added 9-10-2013 by Ord. No. MC-4766]
A. 
Prior to the sale, return, or permanent transfer to third parties of photocopiers and other computer equipment (including, without limitation, personal and tablet computers; printers; servers; facsimile machines; and smart phones) of the City of Camden that contain data storage devices (including, without limitation, internal or external hard drives, USB drives, magnetic tapes), said devices shall be secured, removed and/or surrendered, reviewed, and destroyed, where appropriate, under the supervision of the Municipal Clerk in his capacity as Records Coordinator and Manager under N.J.S.A. 40A:9-133e(6).
B. 
The review and destruction of records and data stored in a data storage device shall be performed subject to all pertinent law, rule or regulation, and City records retention policy (see attached Records Retention Schedule), under the supervision of the Municipal Clerk in his capacity as Records Coordinator and Manager under N.J.S.A. 40A:9-133e(6).
C. 
Appropriate and safe methods shall be deployed to permanently destroy records and data from each specific type of photocopier and computer equipment of the City and render the data storage device unusable. Simple file deletion or reformatting of internal or external hard drives and USB memory devices and pulling-out strips of magnetic tape are not acceptable methods of destruction. Physical destruction to safely and securely delete the electronic data records should be used, including drilling holes throughout the entire media and/or subjecting the media to a degaussing device to completely distort the magnetic properties of said media.