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Requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics to create a public, searchable database of federal enforcement actions involving corporate offenses and standardize agency reporting.
Official title: Direct the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics to establish a database with respect to corporate offenses, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 16, 2026 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress March 16, 2026
The bill increases public transparency and data-driven oversight of federal corporate enforcement—helping consumers, policymakers, and researchers—while raising privacy, reputational, cooperation, and administrative-cost risks for businesses, individuals, and taxpayers.
Businesses and the public gain a searchable, downloadable federal database of corporate enforcement actions, improving transparency and accountability of enforcement across agencies.
Consumers, taxpayers, and investors can better assess corporate risk and enforcement histories when choosing products or investments because the database lists entities, offenses, statutes, and outcomes.
Congress and other policymakers receive annual analyses and recommendations based on the data, supporting improved laws, oversight, and deterrence of corporate wrongdoing.
Publishing case documents and identifiers could disclose sensitive information (including trade secrets or personal data), creating privacy and confidentiality risks for businesses and individuals.
Companies and individuals named in the database may suffer reputational harm from alleged but unproven violations being publicized, with potential lasting commercial and personal consequences.
Standardized public disclosure could chill cooperation with prosecutors if companies fear being publicly listed for settlements or declinations, potentially weakening enforcement and information-sharing.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a publicly accessible online database of federal enforcement actions involving corporate offenses and requires federal agencies to provide standardized data to build and update it. The Bureau of Justice Statistics must stand up the database within one year, produce annual reports and analyses (including recidivism and victim/impact estimates), and the Chief Data Officer Council must recommend ways agencies can standardize and share corporate-offense enforcement data. The law sets firm timelines for interagency guidance (180 days), publication (within 1 year), and reporting to Congress (initial report within 1 year of publication and annual reports thereafter), and directs the Attorney General’s consultation on analyses and recommendations.