Ossoff and Cruz push bill to extend term of the board tasked with investigating unsolved Civil Rights-era murders
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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Thursday introduced a bill that aims to give an independent agency more time to investigate unsolved racially-motivated murders from the Civil Rights era.
The bipartisan move would build on a 2018 law, extending the term of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board to 2027. That would allow the board to reopen cases of Black people murdered between 1940 and 1979 and release relevant documents. According to data collected by Plain Talk History, a community of educators, there were at least 45 murders between 1940 and 1968.
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