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The initiative primarily focuses on nine issues: prosecutorial innovation, correctional leadership, over-criminalization, civil asset forfeiture, juvenile justice, adult probation, parole and re-entry, law enforcement, and victims' rights. Right On Crime is a campaign of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank. [3]
In 2020, the largest percentage of Texas hate crime reports were biased against race, ethnicity and ancestry.
The SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. The SPLC defines a hate group as "an organization that — based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities — has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class ...
The murders and subsequent trials brought national and international attention to the desire to amend U.S. hate crime legislation at both the state and federal levels. [8] Wyoming hate crime laws at the time did not recognize homosexuals as a suspect class, [9] whereas Texas had no hate crime laws at all. [10]
Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, [2] that advocates for voting rights, racial justice, economic justice, and criminal justice reform. [3] It was formed in 1990 by attorney James C. Harrington.
Equality Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and the University of Texas School of Law's Human Rights Clinic signed a 35-page letter of allegation ...
Pages in category "Civil rights organizations in the United States" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, enacted 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), permits federal prosecution of anyone who "willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with ... any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin" [1] or because of the victim's attempt to engage in one of six types of federally protected activities ...