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California’s new Attorney General, Rob Bonta, took the podium at his first news conference on May 11 to announce the formation of a Racial Justice Bureau, charged with addressing bias and hate “at their roots” and strengthening responses to hate crimes throughout the state.
The Bureau, which will initially bring together six new attorneys and a new deputy attorney general as part of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Enforcement Section, comes into being as Californians throughout the state deal with a pandemic-related surge of hate crimes against Asian Americans, white supremacist activity, and repeated instances of police violence.
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Hannah Wiley
The Sacramento Bee
The California Department of Justice announced this week that it will expand access to and begin releasing certain gun violence prevention data that it had withheld from a state-funded University of California research center.
Less than a week into the job, Attorney General Rob Bonta committed to releasing data that track gun sales, restraining orders and other ownership information to a team at the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center.
The announcement comes weeks after researchers raised concerns that the agency was denying them certain records that rendered some studies impossible to complete.
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