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Hate crime laws in the United States are state and federal laws which are intended to protect people from hate crimes (also known as bias crimes). While state laws vary, current statutes permit federal prosecution of hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity.
[165] [166] The law was opposed by groups including the Ohio Counseling Association, [167] Equality Ohio, [168] TransOhio, [169] Human Rights Campaign [169] and Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio, [168] while the Center for Christian Virtue [170] and Family Research Council [169] supported the measure. The bill received five hearings and was assigned ...
UHCAN Ohio is an activist organization operating across the state to help set up similar anti-racism initiatives. [ 11 ] In 2020, the governments of Columbus and Franklin County each declared racism a public health crisis in their jurisdictions.
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President Obama signed the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act into law in 2009. But the effort to pass this landmark legislation started much earlier. Legislative ...
An Ohio man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal hate crime, admitting he assaulted an Asian American college student in 2021 and blamed him for Covid-19 because of the victim’s race, according ...
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on October 22, 2009, [1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).
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