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Legislation Would Open Trove Of Federal Records On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases
NPR's Debbie Elliott asks Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., about legislation making available documents from decades-old unsolved civil rights cases.
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Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018
This bill requires the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to: (1) establish a collection of civil rights cold case records; (2) prepare and publish the subject guidebook and index to the collection; and (3) establish criteria for transmitting copies of civil rights cold case records to NARA, to include required metadata.
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