Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice has more than 500 people reviewing the Jeffrey Epstein files ahead of them being made publicly available in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The department on Thursday provided the U.S. District Court of Southern New York with an update on the its efforts to comply with the recently enacted law that required all files to be uploaded and made publicly available no later than Dec. 19.
"The department has made substantial progress and remains focused on releasing materials under the act promptly while protecting victim privacy, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney for Southern New York Jay Clayton jointly said in a letter to the federal court.
"Compliance with the act is a substantial undertaking, principally because, for a substantial number of documents, careful, manual review is necessary to ensure that victim-identifying information is redacted before materials are released," they said.
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