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Records about destroyed or missing material are covered

To require the Attorney General to release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

Records about destroyed or missing material are covered

The document says “shallWho acts: Attorney GeneralHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“(8) All communications, memoranda, directives, logs, or metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents, recordings, or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.”

To require the Attorney General to release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and for other purposes, Sec. 2

Paragraph (8) of subsection (a). The eighth category is communications, memoranda, directives, logs and metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement or concealment of documents, recordings or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.

What the document actually says

“(8) All communications, memoranda, directives, logs, or metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents, recordings, or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.”

To require the Attorney General to release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and for other purposes, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

A file may have been wiped, changed, lost, or hidden. Notes about that count. So do logs and the data behind a file.

What this is about

This part is not about the missing files. It is about the notes and logs that talk about them.

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  1. The document itself

    Epstein Files Transparency Act, Public Law 119-38, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 656 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/html/PLAW-119publ38.htm

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    “Records about destroyed or missing material are covered,” Epstein Files Transparency Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/epstein-files-transparency-act/proposal/sec02-records-destruction-of-material/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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