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California Legislation Bills 2023

By Carmen Chandler| 2023-05-05T10:06:49+00:00 May 5th, 2023|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+, Police & Community, Uncategorized|

May 2, 2023

Ann Noel, CAHRO Legislative Liaison

Here are the legislative bills that CAHRO is tracking this year.

Note: to track a bill’s progress, utilize the California Legislature’s excellent website, which gives you information of the latest version of any bill, how it amends current

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Responding to Law Enforcement Critical Incidents: A Resource Guide for HRCs

By Carmen Chandler| 2023-05-17T13:44:13+00:00 April 7th, 2023|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

This guide is written for Commissioners or anyone working with a Human Relations Commission, Human Rights Commission, or any other similar human relations body that has a responsibility in responding to a human relations crisis after a law enforcement critical incident where there have been allegations of excessive use of force, and where

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Responding to Hate: A Resource Guide for HRCs

By Carmen Chandler| 2023-03-03T10:54:30+00:00 March 3rd, 2023|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

This guide is written for Commissioners or anyone working with a Human Relations Commission, Human Rights Commission, or any other similar human relations body that has a responsibility in responding to hate. As a commission or body representing a city government, you have both a responsibility and a unique opportunity to take specific

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Information about 2022 California Legislation

By Carmen Chandler| 2022-08-24T10:11:48+00:00 August 5th, 2022|Education, Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

This legislative session CAHRO tracked seven bills dealing with harassment or hate crimes, summarized below. In mid-August, it’s make or break it time for bills for this legislative session – bills needed to pass out of appropriations by August 12, and now might get last minute amendments before being passed or not passed by the

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Orange County Human Relations Council’s kNOw Hate campaign

By Carmen Chandler| 2020-07-01T16:04:45+00:00 July 1st, 2020|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

kNOwHATE is an education and awareness campaign created by OC Human Relations to promote the importance of diversity and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.

Here’s the link to the campaign.

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Southern California heavily targeted in 120% increase in white supremacist propaganda in U.S.

By Carmen Chandler| 2020-02-17T09:27:10+00:00 February 17th, 2020|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

White supremacist propaganda heavily targeted the Inland Empire and Southern California as a whole in 2019, according to an annual report released by the Anti-Defamation League.

In communities across the nation, the distribution of white supremacist propaganda — in the form of flyers, leaflets, stickers and banners — reached an all-time high in the United States

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This Public College Wants to Punish 2 Students for Hate Speech. Is That Legal?

By Carmen Chandler| 2020-01-16T08:50:57+00:00 January 16th, 2020|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The University of Connecticut violated two students’ free-speech rights by attempting to expel them from college housing for allegedly using a racial slur, a new lawsuit says, raising the question of whether a university has the authority to punish offensive speech on its campus.

The students, Ryan Mucaj and Jarred Karal, both seniors, were arrested in

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Trump Targets Anti-Semitism and Israeli Boycotts on College Campuses

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-12-12T14:43:10+00:00 December 12th, 2019|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The president’s order would allow the government to withhold money from campuses deemed to be biased, but critics see it as an attack on free speech….

The New York Times

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‘We Were Blindsided’: Families Of Extremists Form Group To Fight Hate

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-12-12T14:40:37+00:00 December 12th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

It was a busy fall morning at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Myrieme Churchill found a clearing in the arrivals hall and scanned the crowd.

One by one, her people showed up: a black father and daughter from Tennessee. A white couple from Georgia. A Somali immigrant. Two South Asians — one from Canada, one

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The ‘OK’ Hand Gesture Is Now Listed As A Symbol Of Hate

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-09-26T15:43:24+00:00 September 26th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The “OK” hand gesture, commonly seen as a way of indicating that all is well, has now been classified as something else: a symbol of hate. On Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, added 36 symbols to its “Hate on Display” database including the index finger-to-thumb sign that in some corners of

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