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This bill, the Military Justice Reporting Improvement Act, aims to improve information collection and reporting on sexual assaults and racial and ethnic demographics within the military justice system. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. Requiring the Secretaries of the military departments to submit annual reports to the Secretary of Defense on racial, ethnic, and sex demographics in the military justice system, including data on reported offenses, investigations, administrative actions, non-judicial punishments, charges, court-martials, convictions, and acquittals. 2. Requiring the Secretary of Defense to forward these reports to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. 3. Directing the Secretary of Defense to prescribe a policy requiring information on the race and ethnicity of accused individuals to be included, to the maximum extent practicable, in the annual report on sexual assaults in the military, while allowing for exclusion of such information based on privacy concerns or other important matters. 4. Making the race and ethnicity information described in the policy publicly available, subject to the exclusions mentioned. The bill aims to enhance transparency and accountability in the military justice system by providing detailed demographic data on the handling of offenses.

Military Affairs and Security

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