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The bill substantially increases public and policymaker access to federal corporate enforcement data—improving transparency and informing reforms—while creating privacy and confidentiality risks and imposing fiscal and administrative costs on agencies and taxpayers.
Researchers, journalists and the general public gain searchable, downloadable federal corporate enforcement data within a year, increasing transparency about enforcement actions and settlement outcomes.
Lawmakers and oversight bodies receive aggregated data and annual reports (including recidivism and impact estimates), giving policymakers evidence to craft targeted reforms to deter corporate crime.
Federal agencies and financial institutions benefit from standardized reporting guidance and Chief Data Officers Council involvement, which should improve data quality and agency data‑sharing practices across the government.
Small businesses, nonprofits and individual defendants may suffer reputational harm and privacy impacts if identifiable defendants or employers are published for allegations that were not proven.
Federal investigatory bodies and financial institutions risk disclosure of sensitive investigatory materials or privileged information if redaction protocols and safeguards are insufficient.
Taxpayers and agencies will bear costs to collect, digitize, host, and maintain a comprehensive federal enforcement database and produce annual reports.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires BJS to create and publish a public, searchable, downloadable database of Federal enforcement actions involving corporate offenses, with guidance and reporting timelines.
Creates a public, online, searchable, and downloadable database of Federal enforcement actions involving corporate offenses and assigns the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) responsibility for building, publishing, updating, and reporting on that database. The Director of BJS must define key terms, issue data-collection guidance within 180 days, publish the database within one year, update it with new data, and provide an initial and annual congressional report with recidivism analysis, impact estimates, and recommendations developed with the Attorney General. The Chief Data Officers Council is also directed to identify ways federal agencies can improve data collection, digitization, sharing, publishing, and standardization to support the database.
Introduced March 16, 2026 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress March 16, 2026