As reported by ISPLA (Investigative and Security Professionals for Legislative Action), the Administrative Office (AO) of the United States Courts has announced that on April 1, 2011, it will begin destroying archived records of federal district court cases which were filed after 1969 and which were archived during the period 1970 to 1995.
According to a post on ISPLA's website (http://www.ispla.org/) "When a case filed in the district court has been closed, the file is maintained by the District Court for a period of time, but it is ultimately transferred to the National Archives. To reduce the cost of preserving these records, the AO has decided to discard approximately 80% of them. The AO has no plans to preserve these records electronically. Only the Judgments and the docket sheets of the discarded cases will be kept." The post goes on to say that "the wanton destruction of an entire generation of public records is utterly unacceptable and action must be taken to prohibit this from occurring."
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