As King County completes the change from Skype to Teams, we want to remind users of our general County policies for recording meetings and calls. 

Here are a few things we need everyone to be aware of:  

First, we’re a two-party consent state. What does that mean? It means the person making a recording must tell others he or she is doing so.  

• Just as in Skype, when you’re on a computer and a meeting or a call is being recorded, a banner will appear across the top of your meeting window. Look for it! 

•  If you’re calling into a meeting from a cell phone or a landline, you’ll receive an audio notification when recording is underway. 

Meeting and call recordings are considered public records. 

• As such, they must be managed in accordance with records retention and disposition laws 
• Additionally, recordings are subject to all public disclosure laws. 
• For any records management questions, please contact the King County Records Management Program: records.management@kingcounty.gov, or 206 477-6889. 

Meeting and call recordings are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Here are instructions for how to access recordings and how to restrict who can record.  

Reminder: The best practice is to always tell other parties if a call or meeting is being recorded, and to treat any recordings as public records.