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The bill gives D.C. officials regular and on-request access to BOP custody/release records to improve reentry coordination and protects against outside dissemination, but it raises privacy risks, administrative costs, and potential public-safety trade-offs by restricting interjurisdictional sharing.
D.C. government (Mayor and local supervision agencies) will receive routine (every 90 days) custody and release data plus on-request supervision-related records from the BOP, improving reentry planning, coordination with supervision agencies, and local supervision of people returning to the community.
Residents whose records are covered gain a privacy protection because the Mayor is prohibited from sharing the information outside D.C. government, and D.C. law enforcement is barred from accessing these disclosures, reducing the risk that the data will be used for prosecutions or broad surveillance outside the local reentry context.
People with counsel in criminal, post-conviction, or reentry matters can receive relevant BOP information to support legal representation and case-related decision-making.
Limiting disclosures outside D.C. and barring D.C. law enforcement from access could hinder interjurisdictional investigations and delay or complicate crime prevention and public-safety responses that rely on sharing records.
Sharing personal identifiers and custody/release dates with D.C. officials increases privacy risks for people in BOP custody (including potentially vulnerable individuals), exposing names, dates, facility locations, and release information to additional systems.
The BOP and the Mayor’s office will incur additional administrative burden and staff time to compile, redact, transmit, and respond to periodic and on-request record disclosures, which could divert resources from other work.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires BOP to send quarterly custody and release data for D.C.-covered inmates to the D.C. Mayor and limits the Mayor’s ability to share that data outside specified legal and reentry contacts.
Introduced January 28, 2025 by Eleanor Holmes Norton · Last progress January 28, 2025
Requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to send the Mayor of the District of Columbia, every 90 days, basic identifying and custody information for each person in BOP custody under the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, and to provide additional records on request. The Mayor is largely barred from sharing that information outside the D.C. government, may not share it with any D.C. law enforcement agency, and may only disclose the information to the person’s counsel or organizations that provide legal or reentry-related representation.