No Schedule, No Delete
Explain why disposition needs an approved retention schedule or documented authority before deletion.
If you cannot name the authority, you are not ready to delete. What a schedule does A retention schedule translates business, legal, fiscal, and operational requirements into a rule. It names the record series, defines the retention trigger, states how long to keep the records, and specifies the final action. That is what makes disposition more than a personal judgment. Why ordinary-course matters Deletion is safest when it is routine, documented, and consistently applied. The point is not to keep everything forever. The point is to remove records when the approved rule says their value has expired and no hold…
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