How should records be disposed of?
Confidential records (primarily student related) should be shredded, if possible. If you do not have access to a shredder, do your best to provide for the security of the records as they are destroyed. For example, do not allow student records to remain in a dumpster for a long period of time before being taken to a landfill. Public records (those not classified as confidential) do not require shredding. They may be recycled or taken to a landfill. For environmental reasons, incineration of paper records is discouraged.
