The Sexual Violence Prevention Association (SVPA) strongly endorses the Epstein Files Transparency Act II (EFTA II), a bipartisan bill to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to comply with the original law and create new pathways for justice. The SVPA has been advocating for this bill, encouraging signatures on the discharge petition. We urge the House and Senate to swiftly pass EFTA II when they return in November.
“The government continues to hide the Epstein files because it will expose the most powerful people in our country. The President, Congressmembers, bank executives, fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, and more,” said Omny Miranda Martone, Founder and CEO of the SVPA. “The longer we go without real transparency, the longer we go without real justice, the longer powerful perpetrators are emboldened to escalate their pedophilia, rape, and human trafficking.”
In November 2025, the original Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA I) was signed into law, requiring the DOJ to release its records on Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. They have not complied. The DOJ is still withholding over 3 million files and has failed to release or heavily redacted documents related to President Donald Trump and other influential figures. Meanwhile, the files the DOJ has released exposed the identities of at least 43 survivors and included unredacted explicit photos of victims.
Epstein survivors have been harassed, traumatized, and revictimized as a result. Meanwhile, their efforts to get justice are being impeded by the DOJ’s failures. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez says his office is still waiting on the unredacted federal records they need to complete their criminal investigation. The original law, EFTA I, did not create a pathway for survivors or states to enforce it in court. In other words, the DOJ could ignore the law with few consequences. Now, that must change.
EFTA II (H.R. 9694/S. 5005) was introduced by Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie alongside Senators Jeff Merkley and Ben Ray Luján. If passed, EFTA II will force the DOJ to comply with the original EFTA by introducing aggressive legal, procedural, and criminal enforcement mechanisms. This bill will:
- Allow state attorney generals, district attorneys, other authorized state officials, members of Congress, and victims to sue the head of the DOJ (the U.S. Attorney General) for unlawfully withholding, redacting, delaying, concealing, or removing Epstein-related records.
- Grant victims the right to obtain full, unredacted records about themselves and the harm they suffered, including relevant FBI FD-302 reports, while protecting the privacy of other victims.
- Bar the DOJ from invoking common law privileges, including the deliberative process privilege, to avoid disclosure. In other words, ban the Department of Justice (DOJ) from using legal loopholes to hide their internal documents, emails, records, and decision-making processes from Congress, the public, or the courts.
- Require the DOJ to give state and local prosecutors the unredacted records they need for investigations and prosecutions, including secure access to classified materials.
- Subject DOJ and FBI officials who knowingly conceal, destroy, falsify, or misrepresent records to existing federal criminal penalties.
“The federal government told survivors it would finally tell the truth. Then they hid millions of files. They hid information about powerful predators to protect their identity. All while exposing the names and graphic images of survivors,” said Omny Miranda Martone, Founder and CEO of the SVPA. “My faith in our democracy is growing increasingly thin. Congress must act. The federal government must stop prioritizing the protection of predators over survivors’ healing.”
The SVPA has been advocating for this bill and urging members of Congress to sign the discharge petition. The discharge petition has reached 216 signatures out of the 218 needed to force the House to vote on the EFTA II. Republican Representatives Nancy Mace, Ralph Norman, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Thomas Massie have joined the Democrats. Because of their support, the House is set to reach the discharge quota and vote on EFTA II when Congress reconvenes in November.
This is the latest in the SVPA’s fight for transparency and justice for Epstein survivors. In November 2025, after an SVPA-led letter to Congress and a historic press conference on Capitol Hill, the original EFTA passed with bipartisan support and was signed into law. We’ve joined members of Congress, advocates, and survivors at vigils and rallies demanding action. We called for full accountability from DOJ leaders, Pam Bondi and Howard Lutnik, over documented ties to Epstein and improper handling of the files. From the beginning, we’ve been fighting beyond transparency for justice and systemic change to prevent future abuse.
“The DOJ has had a year to follow the original Epstein Files Transparency Act. They have chosen not to. Instead, they have chosen to protect perpetrators at the expense of victims and our nation. This bill gives survivors and states the tools to make them comply,” said Martone. “We will continue fighting until every individual and institution connected to Epstein is named and held accountable. We will continue fighting until there is institutional reform, government restructuring, and systemic change that prevents these harms in the first place,” Martone said.
The SVPA strongly urges the House to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act II when it reconvenes in November. We implore the Senate to follow suit with swift passage. No administration is above the law, and no survivor should be left in the dark.
Tell Congress to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
