{"id":674,"date":"2008-09-23T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2008-09-23T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:00:24","slug":"ecm-the-effect-of-regulations-on-goverment-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/ecm-the-effect-of-regulations-on-goverment-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"ECM: The Effect of Regulations on Goverment Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses aren’t the only ones coming under pressure to come to terms with issues around compliance. Federal, State and Local government agencies are also under pressure to better track and protect their digital information.<\/p>\n

While businesses may need to contend with the specifics of Sarbanes-Oxley, governments in turn need to comply with initiatives like the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), Records Management via the Department of Defense’s 5015.2 regulations, the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (FRCP), the Continuity of Operations Program (COOP) and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Canada has the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).<\/p>\n

Government agencies are turning to ECM tools to help manage, protect and make available information that can contain things like official documents, regulatory submissions, engineering and planning, land survey records, and contracts.<\/p>\n

Agencies are adopting ECM to assist with:<\/p>\n