Hate Crimes
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Facial Recognition Technology - Requirements, Procedures, and Prohibitions [SB-182]
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[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establishing requirements, procedures, and prohibitions relating to the use of facial recognition technology by a law enforcement agency; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and administer a training program regarding the use of facial recognition technology on or before June 30, 2026; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy, on or before October 1 each year, to report to the General Assembly information reported by law enforcement agencies using facial recognition technology; etc.
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Gettr Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Safety - Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Revisions [SB-256]
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[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the membership and duties of the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission; providing that a law enforcement agency may employ an individual as a police officer for a certain period only if the individual is certified or provisionally certified by the Commission; and altering provisions of law relating to the certification and recertification of police officers.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, nondiscrimination in employment, etc., penalties. [HB-18]
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[Cybersecurity ]
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Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, nondiscrimination in employment, etc., penalties. [SB-7]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the disruption of quiet enjoyment of a residence with pamphlets, leaflets, or flyers demonstrating ethnic or religious animus; providing a civil penalty. [SB-2082]
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[Religion ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to the disruption of quiet enjoyment of a residence with pamphlets, leaflets, or flyers demonstrating ethnic or religious animus; providing a civil penalty.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Jewish faith or ethnicity; addressing discrimination against persons. [HB-2208]
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[Religion ]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that as used in the Code of Virginia, "race," "religion," or "national origin" shall include persons of the Jewish faith or ethnicity; "racial, religious, or ethnic animosity" shall include animosity toward the Jewish faith or ethnicity; "race," "religious conviction," or "national origin" shall include persons of the Jewish faith or ethnicity; and "race," "religion," or "ethnic and national origin" shall include persons of the Jewish faith or ethnicity. Hate crimes and discrimination;
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Hate crimes and discrimination; antisemitism, penalties. [SB-1184]
[Crime ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
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Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; VSCC to study hate crimes and bias-motivated acts. [SJR-230]
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[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; hate crimes and bias-motivated acts directed toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the increase in hate crimes and bias-motivated acts directed toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Commonwealth.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Condemning the atrocity that occurred in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2022, in which 10 Americans were killed and 3 were injured, and in which 11 of the 13 victims were Black Americans, condemning the Great Replacement Theory as a White supremacist conspiracy theory, and reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating White supremacy, hatred, and racial injustice. [HR-1152]
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Condemning the atrocity that occurred in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2022, in which 10 Americans were killed and 3 were injured, and in which 11 of the 13 victims were Black Americans, condemning the Great Replacement Theory as a White supremacist conspiracy theory, and reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating White supremacy, hatred, and racial injustice.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Condemning rising antisemitism. [HR-1125]
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[Religion ]
Condemning rising antisemitism.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Commemorating the 1-year anniversary of the March 16, 2021, shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and denouncing anti-Asian hate. [HR-981]
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[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Commemorating the 1-year anniversary of the March 16, 2021, shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and denouncing anti-Asian hate.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Civil Rights Cold Case Investigations Support Act of 2022 [HB-6818]
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[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Human Rights ]
To amend the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018 to extend the termination date of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Civil Rights Cold Case Investigations Support Act of 2022 [S.3655]
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[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
A bill to amend the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018 to extend the termination date of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Condemning the atrocities that occurred in Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1912 in which over 1,100 Black Americans were terrorized and driven out by white supremacist mobs, including dozens of Black Americans who owned land in the county, and reaffirming the House of Representatives' commitment to combating white supremacy, hatred, and injustice. [HR-917]
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[Housing ]
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[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
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Condemning the atrocities that occurred in Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1912 in which over 1,100 Black Americans were terrorized and driven out by white supremacist mobs, including dozens of Black Americans who owned land in the county, and reaffirming the House of Representatives' commitment to combating white supremacy, hatred, and injustice.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Condemning the heinous terrorist attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on January 15, 2022. [HR-881]
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[Religion ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Crime ]
Condemning the heinous terrorist attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on January 15, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; VSCC to study hate crimes and bias-motivated acts toward. [HJR-88]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; hate crimes and bias-motivated acts directed toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the increase in hate crimes and bias-motivated acts directed toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Commonwealth.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Combating International Islamophobia Act [HB-6204]
[Human Rights ]
[International ]
[Religion ]
To establish in the Department of State the Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, and for other purposes.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Supporting the goals and principles of Transgender Day of Remembrance of memorializing the lives lost this year to antitransgender violence. [HR-814]
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[Race and Civil Rights ]
Supporting the goals and principles of Transgender Day of Remembrance of memorializing the lives lost this year to antitransgender violence.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Combating International Islamophobia Act [HB-5665]
[Human Rights ]
[International ]
[Religion ]
To establish in the Department of State the Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, and for other purposes.
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US Congress 117th Congress
Honoring the victims resulting from hate crimes, Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, where individuals were targeted by violence and hatred because they were Muslim or perceived to be Muslim. [HR-662]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Immigration ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Honoring the victims resulting from hate crimes, Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, where individuals were targeted by violence and hatred because they were Muslim or perceived to be Muslim.