Tokyo Metropolitan Government Guidelines for the appropriate management of official documents Prepared by a third party committee October 24, 7:54
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has created a new guideline for the appropriate management of official documents under a third-party committee of experts, such as information disclosure, for deciding which public documents should be stored in the Metropolitan Archives for a long period of time. And it will be operated from next year.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has made efforts to properly manage official documents based on the point that it was pointed out that the process of decision making inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Government was unclear due to a series of issues surrounding the transfer to the Toyosu Market. Is proceeding.
From April next year, the “Tokyo Metropolitan Archives”, which stores important documents related to Tokyo ’s decision-making, will be moved from Setagaya Ward to Kokubunji City. became.
Specifically, a third party committee created by information disclosure specialists will create new guidelines for determining whether or not an official document should be stored in the archive.
Based on these guidelines, the Metropolitan Government has created specific preservation standards, and in principle, decides whether to preserve or dispose of it at the document creation stage.
The Metropolitan Government believes that by creating guidelines by the third-party committee, it is possible to make the rules for managing public documents transparent and prevent arbitrary decisions from the department in charge.
The city will create guidelines during the current fiscal year and will begin to operate in conjunction with the opening of a new archive.