📜Notice of Formal Determination on Records Release by Civil Rights Board
The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board received 418 pages of records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) related to three civil rights cold case incidents to which the Review Board assigned the unique identifiers 2024-003-003, 2024-003-055, and 2024-003-066. The agencies did not propose any postponements of disclosure in the records related to incident 2024-003-066. NARA, the Department of Justice, and the FBI proposed 559 postponements in the records related to the other two incidents. The FBI later withdrew 44 of the postponements the Bureau proposed. On May 9, 2025 and May 16, 2025, the Review Board met and approved 161 postponements and portions of 33 additional postponements, and determined that 354 pages in full and 64 pages in part should be publicly disclosed in the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection. By issuing this notice, the Review Board complies with the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018 that requires the Review Board to publish in the Federal Register its determinations on the disclosure or postponement of records in the Collection no more than 14 days after the date of its decision.
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The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board received 212 pages of records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) related to a civil rights cold case incident to which the Review Board assigned the unique identifier 2023-001-002. NARA did not propose any postponements of disclosure. The Department of Justice and the FBI proposed 471 postponements of disclosure. The Department of Justice later withdrew two postponements it proposed. On March 28, 2025, the Review Board met and approved 186 postponements, requested changes to 26 postponements, and determined that 168 pages in full and 44 pages in part should be publicly disclosed in the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection. By issuing this notice, the Review Board complies with section 7(c)(4) of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018 that requires the Review Board to publish in the Federal Register its determinations on the disclosure or postponement of records in the Collection no more than 14 days after the date of its decision.
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