Application to destroy RMV records withdrawn
Filed before deadly June 21 crash in N.H.
Applications to destroy records from the Registry of Motor Vehicles were withdrawn before a meeting of the Records Conservation Board on Wednesday, though they were unrelated to the ongoing investigation into the agency.
The “routine” applications were submitted by the MassDOT before the tragic June 21 crash in New Hampshire that took the lives of seven motorcyclists and spurred an in-depth investigation into the registry, according to MassDOT spokesman Patrick
Marvin.
The petitions were submitted in April, May and June, Marvin said, and did not contain RMV driving records or documents related to operator violations. The records in question were comprised of items such as paper accounting receipts and applications to the MassDOT Highway Division for overweight vehicles to travel on Massachusetts roadways.
The applications to destroy RMV records were on Wednesday’s meeting agenda for the board, which gives various agencies permission to destroy certain records. They were withdrawn after the agenda was posted, according to the Secretary of State’s office, and the documents will need to be retained until permission is granted to destroy them.
“MassDOT’s legal department has requested that all records be preserved, regardless of their contents, due to the ongoing data sharing review, and proactively withdrew these submissions,” Marvin said.
Gov. Charlie Baker said he wasn’t familiar with the issue, but added, “I can tell you that everything associated with records there goes through a pretty intense process before they’re allowed to destroy anything.”