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Re: Destruction of notes and data
Posted by:
cda (IP Logged)
Date: February 18, 2007 03:21PM
Thank you
"Written reports on the other hand, are declarations of the conduct and analysis of investigations. Only finalized reports accurately reflect the facts. These to can be evidence.
However, if you feel that drafts of reports should be kept, then by all means keep them. Be sure that every time you run a spell check, or move any text to another place within the report, or correct a typo, that you print out a copy of your "draft" report and identify it as to the date and time that it was created. That ought to produce more paper files than you can store."
I was told/ taught both ways depending on who you talk to. I started keeping th notes along time ago.
It seemed that I saw an suggestion that your field notes should look like your finished report, in that if it was not in the field notes than it should not be in the final report???? because the field notes do not support the info. I do not know if anyone works like that????????