Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Reauthorization Act

This bill changes a 2018 law that set up a federal board to review and release government records about unsolved civil rights-era crimes, known as civil rights cold cases. It states that Congress believes federal, state, and local records on these cases should be presumed open for immediate release. It would let the review board fully repay state or local governments for the cost of digitizing, copying, or mailing these records to the National Archives, and it removes a state and local government exception in the records transfer rules. It would also stop a personal privacy exemption from applying to information in records created on or before January 1, 1990, and it extends the board's term from 7 years to 11 years.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Bonnie Watson Coleman Democrat sponsor
• 21 cosponsors