President Barack Obama signed legislation earlier this month that allows the Department of Justice and the FBI to reopen unsolved civil rights crimes. The Emmett Till Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016, was signed into law on December 16, 2016, and grants the agencies opportunity to pursue crimes committed before 1980. The legislation is an […]
The new legislation will allow civil rights cold cases that happened prior to 1970 to be reopened.
