Kansas City, Missouri, City Council members introduce hate crime ordinance | #citycouncil
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Members of the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council introduced an ordinance that would address hate crimes in the city, the Kansas City LGBTQ Commission announced Monday. Ordinance 231032 would establish a hate offense at the municipal level and create a penalty for certain municipal offenses motivated by hate and/or bias. Prosecutors […]
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East Texas mayor, council debate progress after James Byrd murder
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. JASPER — On a Monday evening in June, Anderson Land called the Jasper City Council meeting to order with a prayer and a reminder that would soon become a familiar refrain: “Council meetings […]
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Mayor lets malicious harms ordinance go into effect without signature | Local News
The malicious crimes ordinance that brought hundreds of people to Gillette City Council meetings in May and June quietly went into effect last week. It did so without the mayor’s stamp of approval, which is a rare occurrence. Mayor Shay Lundvall let the ordinance go into effect without signing it. Lundvall said that while a […]
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LA City Council Passes Motion to Improve Hate Crime Reporting – NBC Los Angeles | #citycouncil
The LA City Council passed a motion Friday aimed at improving the city’s systems for people who need to report hate crimes, citing a disparity between the number of such crimes reported to law enforcement and the number reported to the nonprofit Stop AAPI Hate. The effort was led by Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who introduced […]
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Mayor Eric Adams boasts 40 percent drop in NYC hate crimes
Mayor Eric Adams told members of a Manhattan synagogue on Saturday that hate crimes dropped by 40 percent citywide last month, insisting he’s still a cop at heart whose administration has made fighting antisemitism a top priority. During a 15-minute speech at Park East Synagogue in Lenox Hill, the retired NYPD captain cited new Police […]
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