Bring Our Heroes Home Act

Increased Transparency for Families: The Act aims to provide the "fullest possible accounting" for missing personnel, specifically helping families seeking to learn the ultimate fate of their loved ones (Section 2(a)(1)).

Preservation of History: It ensures that federal records relating to missing personnel are preserved for historical and governmental purposes, as well as for public research (Section 2(a)(1)).

Streamlined Information Access: The creation of a specific collection at the National Archives, complete with a subject guidebook and index, is intended to facilitate public access to these records (Section 4(a)).

Accountability for Government Offices: The bill requires government offices to certify, under penalty of perjury, that they have conducted a thorough search for all relevant records (Section 5(a)(2)).

Proactive Diplomatic Efforts: The Act expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should contact foreign governments, including Russia, China, and North Korea, to seek the disclosure of relevant records (Section 0(2)(A)).

National Security Risks: Disclosure may be postponed if the information pertains to sensitive areas such as military plans, weapons systems, intelligence activities, or nuclear materials (Section 6(a)(1)).

Threats to Intelligence Methods: Information could be withheld if its release would reveal or impair the effectiveness of human intelligence sources or cryptologic systems (Section 6(b)(1)).

Impact on Foreign Relations: The Act allows for the postponement of records if their release would cause serious harm to relations between the United States and a foreign government (Section 6(b)(1)(D)).

Privacy and Safety Concerns: Disclosure may be withheld to protect the identity of living persons who provided confidential information if doing so poses a substantial risk of harm, or to prevent unwarranted invasions of personal privacy (Section 6(c)).

Potential Harm to Military Survival: Information may be withheld if it could harm the methods used by members of the Armed Forces to survive, evade, resist, or escape (Section 6(c)(3)).