What's This All About?

FAA Academy Has Compliance Problems
with the Federal Records Act

From: <[redacted]@faa.gov>
To: <AMC-AMA-500-ALL@faa.gov>
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017

Subject: Student Records

To All,

A recent review of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) policies for records disposition has revealed that there is not currently a schedule for the disposition of Academy Training Student Records. As a result the following policy is invoked for the Air Traffic Division until such time  a schedule can be established.

All FAA Academy Air Traffic Division student training documents and records must be retained. That is, all documents used for a class and all training records generated for each student in that class. Documents and records may be maintained electronically in a pre-defined storage file/container (ex.: KSN SharePoint site, identified system if records, etc.).  The hard copy (all the paper files) cannot be shredded or destroyed. Further information is forthcoming.

AMA/AMC are working to establish an appropriate process for handling, storing, and transferring Academy student training documents. We will update you as soon as possible.

Thanks,
[Redacted]
AMA-501
Air Traffic Division, Staff Manager
FAA Academy
[Redacted]@faa.gov

Congress, DOT OIG, OSC, NARA, et al.:

We hope you remember this as you author the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2017.

Also, we have the unredacted version. Give us a buzz.
admin@fixfaa.org

FAA Academy whistleblowers:

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