§ 16044 Record Destruction Authority

• •School districts can throw away old records if they follow the rules.
• •They have to follow specific steps from another part of the law to do this.
• •This rule has been around since 2006.

A school has old test papers from 20 years ago taking up space.

The school can throw away those old test papers, but they have to follow the rules in Chapter 7 of the Government Code to do it the right way.