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Re: Destruction of notes and data
Posted by:
ssklar (IP Logged)
Date: February 17, 2007 03:05PM
Jim
This issue always amazes me. There is NEVER a good reason to destroy field notes, diagrams etc. unless of course you want to create the appeareance that you are hiding something. I have found notes valuable for correcting errors in transfering the data to a report, and finding information that was not contained in the "typed" report. I simply don't understand why investigators get so defensive about saving these notes. Certainly it is not an expense issue. I have yet to see a situation where field notes are so voluminous that it would be cost prohibitve to store them in the file.
If there is nothing "bad" in these field notes, why would any investigator destroy them and give the other side the opportunity to argue that somthing is being hidden. Seems to me like thats a good enough reason to keep them.