DWC Getting Set to Destroy Old Records

It looks like regulations promulgated by the California Division of Workers' Compensation to send some 150,000 cubic feet of records stored in a Sacramento warehouse to the shredder will become effective after the first of the year. The budget crisis being experienced by the DWC is causing the agency to look to every possible avenue of savings available. Currently the agency spends $625,000 a year to maintain records in the State Records Center. The pending regulations will dispose of all cases older than five years after they are closed, unless attorneys specifically ask that the records be r...