Notice of Formal Determination on Records Release

The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board received 679 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 2023-002-001. NARA did not propose any postponements of disclosure. The Department of Justice and the FBI proposed 562 postponements of disclosure. On January 10, 2025, the Review Board approved 267 postponements, requested changes to 25 postponements, and determined that 640 pages in full and 39 pages in part should be publicly disclosed in the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection. The Review Board also voted to approve the four postponements pending from incident 2023-002-007. 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.