# Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board 2 documents across 2 days of the archive, 0 of them final rules. The five most recent days are below. [HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/civil-rights-cold-case-records-review-board/) · [the long-form archive](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/civil-rights-cold-case-records-review-board/archive.md) · [the daily issue](https://downstream.sh/daily/index.md) ## 27 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-27.md) ### Notice of Formal Determination on Records Release *Notice* — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board previously reviewed and made formal disclosure determinations on records related to civil rights cold case incident 2023-002-006 in which the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed postponements. The DOJ later proposed 4 additional postponements. On August 24, 2026, the Review Board rejected these postponements and determined that 32 pages in full and 33 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. 91 FR 55319 · FR Doc. 2026-17441 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-27/pdf/2026-17441.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17441/notice-of-formal-determination-on-records-release) ## 26 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-26.md) > The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board published a formal determination approving disclosure of 5,104 pages in full and 513 pages in part from three civil rights cold case records. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/civil-rights-cold-case-records-review-board/#s-2026-08-26 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Notice of Formal Determination on Records Release *Notice* — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board received 5,617 pages of records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) related to three civil rights cold case incidents to which the Review Board assigned the unique identifiers 2023-002-005, 2024-003-029, and 2024-003-052. The agencies proposed 3,691 postponements including postponements of sealed federal grand jury information in the records. On August 7, 2026, the Review Board approved 1,086 postponements and portions of 71 additional postponements and determined that 5,104 pages in full and 513 pages in part should be publicly disclosed in the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection. The Review Board has requested that the Attorney General petition the relevant court to unseal federal grand jury information in the records. 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. 91 FR 55068 · FR Doc. 2026-17368 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-26/pdf/2026-17368.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17368/notice-of-formal-determination-on-records-release) ## Ask an assistant instead Everything on this page is also a tool call. Add `mcp.downstream.sh` as an MCP server — no key, no account — then paste this: ``` Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board" since 2026-08-26, then summarise what changed and list every deadline it created. ``` Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing, including which dates it has no record for. --- Every document linked here is a work of the United States government and in the public domain. The Federal Register's HTML and XML renderings are unofficial; the PDF on each item is the official text, and that is the one to cite. Counts are arithmetic over published fields, dates are printed as filed, and titles are verbatim. Where we have nothing, this says nothing rather than estimating. The one-sentence agency summaries are machine-written from those same fields and are labelled where they appear. [Downstream](https://downstream.sh/) · [the essay](https://downstream.sh/essays/a-country-that-can-see.html) · [the daily issue](https://downstream.sh/daily/) · [MCP endpoint](https://mcp.downstream.sh)