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Committee adopts amendment, lays over bill that would let families access old missing‑person files after 20 years
Summary
Members adopted a DE1 amendment then laid over House File 18‑93, which would allow families of long‑term missing persons to request controlled access to investigative files after 20 years, subject to law enforcement exceptions.
The committee considered House File 18‑93 on April 3, a bill aimed at giving families of long‑term missing persons controlled access to investigative files two decades after a disappearance. Members adopted a DE1 amendment and then laid the bill over for further work.
Chair McDonald and Representative McDonald described the bill as a response to families who, after many years, remain without information about a relative’s disappearance. Representative McDonald said the bill would reduce the period before families could seek access from 30 years to 20 years to provide an opportunity for…
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