(e) Records custodian means the person with custody of a judicial record determined as follows: (1) The judicial records of a court with only one judge, such as any trial court, are in the custody of that judge.
For example, the records custodian for a hospital could be its legal department or a specific department tasked with records management, but it can also refer to the manager or department head tasked with overseeing the entire records department.
Responsibilities of the Records Custodian Create, maintain, and protect the records necessary to document his/her department's official activities ensuring that records are complete and accessible for the retention periods outlined in the college records retention schedule.
An Affidavit of Records Custodian primarily allows the custodian of the requested records to send the records to the court to be admitted into evidence without testifying to the validity of the requested records in person.
Organizations typically do not have an employee with the specific title of "custodian of records." Instead, the organization's custodian is the individual whom the organization produces in litigation to testify about its documents (often in response to a subpoena or deposition notice).