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Fraggle-of-the-rock t1_jea7if0 wrote

Reply to comment by beyond_hatred in N.H. governor’s policy to destroy records within 30 days raises transparency concerns by mindi4nh

You’d be surprised to know how many divisions in the State actually still use physical files. The division I work for has to keep physical files and record’s because our computer system is 20+ years old, not internet based and can’t support saving documents. Basically, it’s a simple database. If our records go up in smoke, we’ve got very little info to run on. That’s the least of the worries though.

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alkatori t1_jea7hnr wrote

Reply to comment by beyond_hatred in N.H. governor’s policy to destroy records within 30 days raises transparency concerns by mindi4nh

It's because they don't want the liability and potential costs of investigation. You're right, it could be stored indefinitely. It's likely not worth keeping all records after 10 or 20 years vs the continual cost of storing it. But certainly longer than 30 days.

I used to work in public safety, 911 systems primarily.

Chicago holds 911 and radio recordings for 90 days.

They could hold them longer with the equipment they have. They don't want to. They want to be able to respond to all information requests with the fact that they only retain data for 90 days.

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Cherryice99 t1_jea2b1e wrote

Reply to New Hampshire high court rejects Pamela Smart's latest chance at freedom - ABC News by A-Do-Gooder

Smart (an adult) groomed and sexed a 15 year old to get him to kill her husband; In addition to having her husband killed she's a predator, a sex offender. What does she not understand about her sentence of life without the possibility of parole? Her prison achievements of masters degrees and minister credentials are not a magic method of tossing her sentence of LWOP. Gregg Smart was just 24 years old when she had him murdered yet she bangs on about "when is enough - enough", how incredibly entitled and arrogant this woman is. Her LWOP sentence handed down by the court needs to be served until completion.

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Wasteland_Mystic t1_jea0d5e wrote

Reply to N.H. governor’s policy to destroy records within 30 days raises transparency concerns by mindi4nh

I work in an industry where all records must be saved. Not just for weeks, months or years. Forever. Why? Because the Federal Government told us we need to. We had everything on paper records for the longest time and are moved over to almost 100% digital record keeping. It is doable. There is no good reason why we don’t have this for all government offices.

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PiermontVillage t1_je9zf4c wrote

Reply to BRING ON THE DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE BABY! by jjohnson191

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SheenPSU t1_je9x22p wrote

Reply to comment by BeagleBox in Who do you think will win the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 Presidential Election in the state of New Hampshire? by Ok_Nefariousness_764

Ooohhhh okay, are you talking more as a potential President he’s more toxic? What I was referring to earlier was simply on the campaign trail. Altho hindsight 20/20 I failed to make that clear

Trump is a toxic candidate because he’ll give the opposition plenty of ammo to run smear campaigns on the stupid shit he says.

I was thinking Desantis would be less toxic from a campaign standpoint. He’s more stately and a better speaker than Trump imo. Someone you could potentially run an effective campaign behind

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NathanVfromPlus t1_je9vgjf wrote

Reply to comment by DOGO8991 in N.H. governor’s policy to destroy records within 30 days raises transparency concerns by mindi4nh

The rhetoric of "[Region X] is bad, so people should just leave there" isn't really helpful at all. It overlooks the many challenges that might keep people from leaving their homes. You could just as easily say the same thing about the people living in Yemen, or Detroit, or Palestine, or West Virginia, or Ukraine, or Florida. "If it's such a horrible place to live, then why don't the people there just leave?" Because it's really not that easy.

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beyond_hatred t1_je9undq wrote

Reply to comment by InevitableMeh in N.H. governor’s policy to destroy records within 30 days raises transparency concerns by mindi4nh

It should be indefinite. There's no technical reason why the state can't retain all records permanently. Storage and archiving are cheap.

Also, some crimes don't have a time limitation for how long they can be prosecuted. If the records are there 50 years back, it might make all the difference.

Also, the statute of limitations for any given crime is enforced by the courts. It should not be short-circuited by a state employee pre-emptively destroying potential evidence.

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