Posted By: chrismaslen April 15, 2021 @ 6:15 am Local News, News
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is leading a bipartisan effort in pressing Congress to increase funding in order to provide the necessary tool for state an local law enforcement agencies to better identify, report, and prevent hate crimes in their jurisdictions.
Schmidt co-authored a letter to congressional leaders alongside District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine encouraging the passage of the Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act.
The legislation aims to provide federal grants to improve upon hate crimes reporting as well as increasing penalties for federal hate crimes. The grants would be used to train employees on identifying, classifying, and reporting hate crimes in the FBI’s national database, assist with the further development of programs to prevent such crimes, increase community education about them, and create state-run ha
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