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Records Services Director Keith Buckner
Keith Buckner was promoted to Records Services Director on October 1, 2020, after serving as Records Specialist since 2012. He attended Tyler public schools, and graduated from John Tyler High School (renamed Tyler High School). He also attended Tyler Junior College and graduated with his bachelor’s degree from Texas College. He enjoys helping customers and assisting the courts. While away from work, he enjoys sports, especially football, and volunteering for the Red Cross installing smoke detectors in local neighborhoods.
Records Services activities concern all inactive records covering Smith County’s District and County Courts and other select documentation regarding and preserving the history and heritage of Smith County.
Actions involving the receipt, storage, retrieval, use and disposition of the records are done according to state law and the rules of the State Library and Archives Commission. This pertains directly to the statutory authority of Government Code: Chapter 441, subchapter L; 441.225 (b); 441.185, and State Agency Bulletin No. 4 of September 2007. The counties of Texas are legally responsible for retaining and preserving their permanent and historical records.
Under the legal purview of the Commissioners Court, service is provided to all residents of Smith County and any others wishing to access the records properly consistent with maintaining the requisite security of the documentation. All efforts are aimed toward striving for excellence.
Records management can be defined as a field of management responsible for both the efficient and systematic administration and control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, utilization, protection, and disposition of records, regardless of the recording medium involved.
The Records Services Department was founded on February 1, 1984, as the Records Bureau.
Location
Cotton Belt Building
1517 West Front Street, Room 150 (Basement)
Tyler, Texas 75702-7897
Phone: (903) 590-2960
Fax: (903) 590-2965
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed for lunch noon-1p.m.
Closed for major holidays
RSD Documents
County Clerk Microfilm at ACS - II
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Mission Statement
The Smith County Record Services Department assists all customers and the general public by providing professional access to the deposited records through trying to yield the best possible service.
Activities are directly aligned with the ongoing purposes of the Commissioners Court, and for properly enhancing all efforts to effectively and efficiently meet the many important needs of county departments seeking records management guidance, assistance or advice.
Record Services Department Core Values
Core values for this department encompass the following: rendering of the best service possible to county agencies involved with or seeking its record management services, maintaining professional standards of ethics and conduct for working with internal (agencies/departments) and for external customers, and taking pride in accomplishing the tasks assigned.
Record Services Department Vision Statement
The Record Services Department seeks to meet the challenges of 21st century records management needs.
Through such affirmatively attempted RM leadership, as is thus provided by the RSD, it will demonstrate empirical efforts that highlight directly how this department can try to be a progressive institution, as to then rightly staying in proper touch with all aspects of modern records technology, RM best practices, and cognate standards. This is the RSD’s way and means of adhering to positive allegiance toward the Smith County motto: “Striving for Excellence.”