On May 12, 2026, a federal board published its accounting of 7,664 pages of civil-rights-era homicide records. It approved 737 postponements in full, 71 in part, and cleared 7,312 pages. The notice is titled Notice of Formal Determination on Records Release. What it records is a withholding.
Postponement is a word with a calendar in it, and so is the statute: Section 3(f) makes disclosure mandatory at twenty-five years. The command is real. The runway in front of it is the operation. The annual review compels nothing, and the Board built to press for these files sunsets in January 2027 while the command comes due in January 2044.
Then there is the grand jury core, which no postponement reaches. That is the tell. The scheduling word is the word for the perimeter.