Sec. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS
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## SEC. 2 SENSE OF CONGRESS **[**[28 U.S.C. 509 note](/us/usc/t28/s509)**]** It is the sense of Congress that all authorities with jurisdiction, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other entities within the Department of Justice, should— ####
(1)expeditiously investigate unsolved civil rights murders, due to the amount of time that has passed since the murders and the age of potential witnesses; ####
(2)provide all the resources necessary to ensure timely and thorough investigations in the cases involved; ####
(3)meet regularly with eligible entities to coordinate the sharing of information and to discuss the status of the Department’s work under this Act; ####
(4)support the full accounting of all victims whose deaths or disappearances were the result of racially motivated crimes; ####
(5)hold accountable under Federal and State law all individuals who were perpetrators of, or accomplices in, unsolved civil rights murders and such disappearances; ####
(6)express the condolences of the authority to the communities affected by unsolved civil rights murders, and to the families of the victims of such murders and such disappearances; ####
(7)keep families regularly informed about the status of the investigations of such murders and such disappearances of their loved ones; and ####
(8)expeditiously comply with requests for information received pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code, (commonly known as the “Freedom of Information Act”) and develop a singular, publicly accessible repository of these disclosed documents.
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