Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Logan's Law
A bill to establish a publicly accessible database of individuals with convictions for violent crimes, and for other purposes.
A Republican bill with 1 Republican cosponsor · See the cosponsor
Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
In committee
Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.
The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
This bill, titled "Logan's Law," seeks to create a publicly accessible "Violent Criminal Offender Database." The Attorney General would establish this database to include both Federal and State records of qualifying convictions. A qualifying conviction involves offenses punishable by more than 180 days that involve physical force or a substantial risk of force. The database is intended to be searchable by various criteria and available to the public free of charge. States that receive Byrne JAG grant funds must submit this data or risk losing their grant distribution. Additionally, the Attorney General must submit a report regarding current information-sharing processes and recommendations for improvement.
Yes
- Scored +6
Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see?
The bill increases transparency by making violent criminal conviction records accessible to the public.
- Scored +5
Does this give the federal government more power?
The bill gives the Attorney General authority to withhold grant funds from states for non-compliance.
- Scored +2
Does this give the government more power to monitor people inside the country?
The creation of a public database of criminal convictions increases the visibility of individual criminal histories.
The opposite
- Scored -5
Does this protect people from being watched or searched?
The bill creates a public record of sensitive criminal information that can be searched by name and address.
- Scored -4
Does this give people more control over their personal data?
The bill establishes a public database containing detailed personal information like name, address, and race.
- Scored -3
Does this leave more decisions to the states?
The bill imposes federal mandates on states and threatens their grant funding to ensure data submission.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Public Access to Information: The Attorney General must ensure the Database is available free of charge to the public (Section 102(b)(3)). This allows individuals to search for information regarding qualifying convictions using specific criteria such as name, address, or race (Section 102(b)(4)).
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Public Safety: The Attorney General is tasked with determining searchable categories to ensure the safety of the public (Section 102(b)(4)(O)). Furthermore, the Attorney General is directed to identify issues that prevent the sharing of records to ensure the public is protected from criminal offenders (Section 201(2) and Section 201(3)).
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Prevention of Light Sentencing: The bill aims to identify issues that prevent records from being shared so that repeat criminal offenders are not given inappropriately light sentences (Section 201(4)(B)).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
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Financial Penalties for States: States that fail to submit required data regarding qualifying convictions may have their Byrne JAG grant amounts withheld by the Attorney General (Section 103(a) and Section 103(b)(1)).
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Redirection of State Funds: If a State is noncompliant with data submission, the Attorney General has the discretion to distribute those withheld grant amounts directly to units of local government within that State instead (Section 103(b)(2)).
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Education And Technology
- Does this give people more control over their personal data? — The bill establishes a public database containing detailed personal information like name, address, and race.
- Governance And Ideology
- Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see? — The bill increases transparency by making violent criminal conviction records accessible to the public. Does this give the federal government more power? — The bill gives the Attorney General authority to withhold grant funds from states for non-compliance. Does this protect people from being watched or searched? — The bill creates a public record of sensitive criminal information that can be searched by name and address. Does this leave more decisions to the states? — The bill imposes federal mandates on states and threatens their grant funding to ensure data submission.
- National Security And Foreign Policy
- Does this give the government more power to monitor people inside the country? — The creation of a public database of criminal convictions increases the visibility of individual criminal histories.
- 9/16/2026
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 4/30/2026
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Introduced in Senate
One bill Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
- Darline Graham
Republican · South Carolina