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regated police and fire departments throughout the
Nation, notably in the State of Mississippi and in
Miami, Birmingham, Cleveland, Nassau County,
Buffalo, and Houston;
(16) in Givens v. Hamlet Estates, the Lawyers’
Committee acquired the first seizure order in a fair
housing case that led to the exposure of a decade old
racial coding system that denied apartments to
6,000 African-Americans and Hispanics in Miami,
Florida;
(17) the Lawyers’ Committee obtained victories
in 3 cases before the United States Supreme Court
in 1996–1997 involving the Voting Rights Act, in-
cluding Young v. Fordice, Lawyer v. United States,
and King v. State Board of Elections;
(18) the Lawyers’ Committee persuaded the
Environmental Protection Agency to relocate 358
African-American 
families 
living 
around 
the
Escambia toxic Superfund site in Pensacola, Flor-
ida;
(19) the Lawyers’ Committee coordinated a
Church Burning Project in the 1990s to provide free
legal assistance to churches that were destroyed dur-
ing a bitter rampage of racially motivated church
burnings;
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(20) in Washington Park Land Committee v.
Portsmouth, the Lawyers’ Committee secured a case
settlement that led to the relocation of 185 families
from toxic lead poisoned segregated public housing
in Portsmouth, Virginia, to new integrated housing
opportunities; and
(21) June 21, 2003 is the 40th anniversary of
the founding of the Lawyers’ Committee.
(b) RECOGNITION.—Pursuant to the findings in sub-
section (a), Congress—
(1) recognizes that these accomplishments of
the Lawyers’ Committee reflect the tremendous com-
mitment to implementing justice that President
Kennedy embarked on 40 years ago;
(2) recognizes the achievements of the Lawyers’
Committee, as its staff and pro bono attorneys, cli-
ents, and friends commemorate and celebrate its
40th anniversary; and
(3) supports the designation of an appropriate
day as ‘‘Equal Justice Day’’ in honor of the dedi-
cated work of the Lawyers’ Committee and the
many hours of pro bono service offered by lawyers
and law firms throughout this country to secure jus-
tice and equal opportunity for all.
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TITLE IV—KOBY MANDELL ACT
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Koby Mandell Act of
2003’’.
SEC. 402. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Numerous American citizens have been
murdered or maimed by terrorists around the world.
(2) Some American citizens who have been vic-
tims of terrorism overseas have not received from
the United States Government services equal to
those received by other such victims of overseas ter-
rorism.
(3) The United States Government has not de-
voted adequate efforts or resources to the apprehen-
sion of terrorists who have harmed American citi-
zens overseas. Monetary rewards for information
leading to the capture of terrorists overseas, which
the government advertises in regions where the ter-
rorists are believed to be hiding, have not been ad-
vertised adequately.
(4) To remedy these and related problems, an
office should be established within the Department
of Justice for the purpose of ensuring equally vig-
orous efforts to capture all terrorists who have
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harmed American citizens overseas and equal treat-
ment for all American victims of overseas terrorism.
SEC. 403. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OFFICE IN THE DEPART-
MENT OF JUSTICE TO UNDERTAKE SPECIFIC
STEPS TO FACILITATE THE CAPTURE OF TER-
RORISTS WHO HAVE HARMED AMERICAN
CITIZENS OVERSEAS AND TO ENSURE THAT
ALL AMERICAN VICTIMS OF OVERSEAS TER-
RORISM ARE TREATED EQUALLY.
The President shall establish within the Department
of Justice an office (hereinafter in this title the ‘‘Office’’)
to carry out the following activities:
(1) The Office shall create the Bringing Terror-
ists to Justice program, and in so doing will ensure
that—
(A) rewards are offered to capture all ter-
rorists involved in harming American citizens
overseas, regardless of the terrorists’ country of
origin or residence;
(B) such rewards are prominently adver-
tised in the mass media and public sites in all
countries or regions where such terrorists re-
side;
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(C) the names and photographs and sus-
pects in all such cases are included on a web
site; and
(D) the names of the specific organizations
claiming responsibility for terrorist attacks
mentioned on the site are included in the de-
scriptions of those attacks.
(2) The Office shall establish and administer a
program which will provide notification for American
victims of overseas terrorism or their immediate
family to update them on the status of efforts to
capture the terrorists who harmed them.
(3) The Office shall work with the other United
States government agencies to expand legal restric-
tions on the ability of murderers to reap profits from
books or movies concerning their crimes—the ‘‘Son
of Sam’’ laws that currently exist in many States, so
as to ensure that terrorists who harm American citi-
zens overseas are unable to profit from book or
movie sales in the United States.
(4) The Office shall endeavor to determine if
terrorists who have harmed American citizens over-
seas are serving in their local police or security
forces. Whenever it is found that terrorists who have
harmed American citizens overseas are serving in
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their local police or security forces, the Office shall
alert those United States Government agencies in-
volved in providing assistance, directly or indirectly,
to those forces, and shall request of those agencies
that all such assistance be halted until the aforemen-
tioned terrorists are removed from their positions.
(5) The Office shall undertake a comprehensive
assessment of the pattern of United States indict-
ments and prosecution of terrorists who have
harmed American citizens overseas, in order to de-
termine the reasons for the absence of indictments
of terrorists residing in some regions. The Office’s
assessment shall then be provided to the Attorney
General, together with its recommendations.
(6) The Office shall endeavor to monitor public
actions by governments and regimes overseas per-
taining to terrorists who have harmed American citi-
zens, such as naming of schools, streets, or other
public institutions or sites after such terrorists. In
such instances, the Office shall encourage other
United States Government agencies to halt their
provision of assistance, directly or indirectly, to
those institutions.
(7) In cases where terrorists who have harmed
Americans overseas, and are subsequently released