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The bill increases federal transparency and oversight of post-pardon criminal activity and use-of-force encounters, improving accountability, but raises privacy and reputational risks for named individuals, may conflict with state rules or investigations, and imposes ongoing administrative costs.
Congressional committees and the public gain regular, centralized 180-day reports on post-pardon criminal activity and related law-enforcement encounters, giving oversight bodies and taxpayers better data to monitor outcomes and inform policymaking.
Taxpayers and oversight officials receive required documentation of law-enforcement use-of-force encounters tied to covered individuals, which can support legislative or oversight actions to improve public safety and accountability.
Individuals named in the reports (and thereby taxpayers) could suffer privacy harms and reputational damage because names and criminal-justice interactions will be published, and the data may be inaccurate or incomplete.
State governments and law enforcement risk duplicative reporting and legal conflicts because publishing federal, state, and local law-enforcement encounters could conflict with state privacy rules or interfere with ongoing investigations.
Taxpayers and federal employees will face added administrative workload and costs because preparing, updating, and publishing detailed reports every 180 days requires CRS staff time and resources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires CRS to publish recurring reports listing people covered by Presidential Proclamation 10887 and any subsequent arrests, charges, convictions, described offenses, and use-of-force encounters.
Requires the Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to produce and publish recurring reports listing every person pardoned, granted commutation, or whose pending indictments were dismissed under Presidential Proclamation 10887 (Jan 20, 2025). Each report must identify which of those individuals were arrested, charged, or convicted (Federal, State, or local) from Jan 20, 2025 through the report date, describe the offenses, and list any encounters involving law enforcement use of force; the first report is due within 60 days of enactment and then every 180 days. Also establishes a short title for the Act and requires publication of the CRS reports on the Library of Congress website and delivery to specified congressional committees (House Administration, Senate Rules and Administration, and both Appropriations committees).
Introduced January 6, 2026 by Norma Judith Torres · Last progress January 6, 2026