Title 34, NavyRelease 119-110

§60907 Procedures to Promote Compliance

Title 34 › Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters › CHAPTER 609 — HOMICIDE VICTIMS’ FAMILIES’ RIGHTS › § 60907

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency heads must create rules within one year after August 3, 2022 so a designated person (someone allowed to request a review) can ask for a review and so the agency follows this chapter. The rules must name an office to handle and investigate complaints about reviews or reinvestigations; require staff training on the chapter’s duties; allow discipline (including suspension or firing) for employees who willfully or wantonly fail to comply; provide a complaint process for cold-case murder investigations or file reviews; and make the agency head or their designee the final decision, with no court review by the complainant.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §60907

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(a)Regulations

Not later than one year after August 3, 2022, the head of each agency shall promulgate regulations to enforce the right of a designated person to request a review under this chapter and to ensure compliance by the agency with the obligations described in this chapter.

(b)Procedures

The regulations promulgated under subsection (a) shall—

(1)designate an administrative authority within the agency to receive and investigate complaints relating to a review initiated under section 60901 of this title or a reinvestigation initiated under section 60903 of this title;

(2)require a course of training for appropriate employees and officers within the agency regarding the procedures, responsibilities, and obligations required under this chapter;

(3)contain disciplinary sanctions, which may include suspension or termination from employment, for employees of the agency who are shown to have willfully or wantonly failed to comply with this chapter;

(4)provide a procedure for the resolution of complaints filed by the designated person concerning the agency’s handling of a cold case murder investigation or the case file evaluation; and

(5)provide that the head of the agency, or the designee thereof, shall be the final arbiter of the complaint, and that there shall be no judicial review of the final decision of the head of the agency by a complainant.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 60907

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110