you may proceed. thank you, your hawn. do me a favor. spell your name and tell us who you are, where you work and what you do. my name is sonja boles-melvin and i am the registrar for seminole state college of florida. what is a registrar? the registrar is responsible for all the educational records, academic records of the institution. and i assume that your institution keeps academic records. correct. i ll show you what has been marked state s exhibit 209 for purposes of this proceeding. do you recognize that document? i do. is that the type of record that is kept in the course of
yes, sir. jobs as civilian and as a police officer? with the police department, yes, sir. the manager of personnel unit would be the person who would normally calling custodian records of that type? yes, sir. how long does the prince william county police department keep the actual applications of records? well, in accordance with the virginia records retention act, what we do is we keep them for the mandated three years. after that time it is standard practice for us to destroy the records after that period. were you asked to investigate if you had any records to become a police officer by the defendant in this case, george zimmerman? yes, sir. were you able to locate the actual application? no, sir. it was destroyed. show you what s marked as state s exhibit 211. and do you recognize this exhibit, sir? yes, sir. okay. what is that? that s an extract. what we do after we destroy