Extends the life of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board from 7 years to 11 years, lets the Board repay state and local governments for copying or mailing civil rights records, and removes an exception that let state and local governments withhold such records from transmission to the Collection.

• Extends the Review Board's tenure from 7 years to 11 years
• Allows the Review Board to fully reimburse state and local governments for digitizing, photocopying, or mailing civil rights cold case records to the Archivist
• Removes the exception that exempted state and local governments from transmitting civil rights cold case records to the Collection
• Provides that personal privacy exemptions under FOIA do not apply to information in civil rights cold case records created on or before January 1, 1990
• Expresses the sense of Congress that such records should carry a presumption of immediate disclosure and eventually be made public

• Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)

Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues