Hate Crimes – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

Hate violence poses a serious threat to California communities. In every region of the state, incidents have occurred in which racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities have been harassed, intimidated, assaulted and even murdered. In some communities, acts motivated by bigotry have sparked widespread community disruption.

CA vs. Hate Partner Toolkit 2024 Report Data is Available

By Carmen Chandler| 2025-09-19T16:04:40+00:00 September 19th, 2025|blog, Conflict Resolution, Disability, Education, Employment & Housing, Extremism, Hate Crimes, Immigration, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+, Mixed Race Issues, Police & Community, Women's Issues|

California vs Hate is the state’s first-ever multilingual statewide hotline and online portal that provides a safe, anonymous reporting options for victims and witnesses of hate. Run out of the California Civil Rights Department, the hotline is only able to succeed because of the services and trust of our partners across the state. As

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California Legislation Bills 2023

By Carmen Chandler| 2023-05-05T10:06:49+00:00 May 5th, 2023|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+, Police & Community, Uncategorized|

May 2, 2023

Ann Noel, CAHRO Legislative Liaison

Here are the legislative bills that CAHRO is tracking this year.

Note: to track a bill’s progress, utilize the California Legislature’s excellent website, which gives you information of the latest version of any bill, how it amends current

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Responding to Law Enforcement Critical Incidents: A Resource Guide for HRCs

By Carmen Chandler| 2023-05-17T13:44:13+00:00 April 7th, 2023|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

This guide is written for Commissioners or anyone working with a Human Relations Commission, Human Rights Commission, or any other similar human relations body that has a responsibility in responding to a human relations crisis after a law enforcement critical incident where there have been allegations of excessive use of force, and where

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Responding to Hate: A Resource Guide for HRCs

By Carmen Chandler| 2023-03-03T10:54:30+00:00 March 3rd, 2023|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

This guide is written for Commissioners or anyone working with a Human Relations Commission, Human Rights Commission, or any other similar human relations body that has a responsibility in responding to hate. As a commission or body representing a city government, you have both a responsibility and a unique opportunity to take specific

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Information about 2022 California Legislation

By Carmen Chandler| 2022-08-24T10:11:48+00:00 August 5th, 2022|Education, Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

This legislative session CAHRO tracked seven bills dealing with harassment or hate crimes, summarized below. In mid-August, it’s make or break it time for bills for this legislative session – bills needed to pass out of appropriations by August 12, and now might get last minute amendments before being passed or not passed by the

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Orange County Human Relations Council’s kNOw Hate campaign

By Carmen Chandler| 2020-07-01T16:04:45+00:00 July 1st, 2020|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

kNOwHATE is an education and awareness campaign created by OC Human Relations to promote the importance of diversity and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.

Here’s the link to the campaign.

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Southern California heavily targeted in 120% increase in white supremacist propaganda in U.S.

By Carmen Chandler| 2020-02-17T09:27:10+00:00 February 17th, 2020|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

White supremacist propaganda heavily targeted the Inland Empire and Southern California as a whole in 2019, according to an annual report released by the Anti-Defamation League.

In communities across the nation, the distribution of white supremacist propaganda — in the form of flyers, leaflets, stickers and banners — reached an all-time high in the United States

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This Public College Wants to Punish 2 Students for Hate Speech. Is That Legal?

By Carmen Chandler| 2020-01-16T08:50:57+00:00 January 16th, 2020|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The University of Connecticut violated two students’ free-speech rights by attempting to expel them from college housing for allegedly using a racial slur, a new lawsuit says, raising the question of whether a university has the authority to punish offensive speech on its campus.

The students, Ryan Mucaj and Jarred Karal, both seniors, were arrested in

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Trump Targets Anti-Semitism and Israeli Boycotts on College Campuses

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-12-12T14:43:10+00:00 December 12th, 2019|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The president’s order would allow the government to withhold money from campuses deemed to be biased, but critics see it as an attack on free speech….

The New York Times

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‘We Were Blindsided’: Families Of Extremists Form Group To Fight Hate

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-12-12T14:40:37+00:00 December 12th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

It was a busy fall morning at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Myrieme Churchill found a clearing in the arrivals hall and scanned the crowd.

One by one, her people showed up: a black father and daughter from Tennessee. A white couple from Georgia. A Somali immigrant. Two South Asians — one from Canada, one

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