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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—a federal regulator that polices recordkeeping on Wall Street, among other things—has failed to properly handle its own records, according to a recent audit by the agency’s inspector general.

The audit report, issued a year after the SEC came under fire for improperly purging investigative files, describes a records system in disarray.

Many SEC staffers are still unsure about when to preserve records and when to dispose of them, the inspector general found. As a result, some SEC offices may have improperly destroyed documents, while others are sitting on piles of records that could have been safely discarded.

In December 2011, President Obama issued a memo calling proper records management the “backbone of open Government.” If agencies fail to update their records policies, “the surge in information could overwhelm agency systems,” the memo states.

It appears the SEC does not always practice what the President preached.

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