Data / Federal rules / 2025-01159
Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act
The Justice Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on January 21, 2025. Comments closed on March 24, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Department of Justice is proposing a rule to implement the Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act of 2021. The proposed rule would explain and effectuate the Act's system for reviewing and, as warranted, reinvestigating murders investigated by Federal law enforcement agencies that remain unsolved after three years.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-01159
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Justice Department
- Published
- January 21, 2025
- Comments due
- March 24, 2025
- Dates
- Written and electronic comments must be sent or submitted on or before March 24, 2025. Comments received by mail will be considered timely if they are postmarked on or before the last day of the comment period. The electronic Federal Docket Management System will accept electronic comments until midnight eastern time at the end of that day.
- Docket
- Docket No. OAG 182; AG Order No. 6144-2025
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1105-AB70
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 28 CFR 95
- Topics
- Crime; Law enforcement
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 16
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