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CAHRO Resource Guide for HRCs: Planning and Conducting Focus Group Research

By | October 6th, 2023|Education, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Community research

For HRCs, identifying the most important issues and the most effective actions to take can be a critical challenge. Community research can help to ensure that priorities in those areas reflect the greatest needs and the greatest potential contributions to change. Community research refers to systematic inquiry into some dynamic

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California Legislation Bills 2023

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

By | 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 | 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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Boys, girls and genders in-between: A classroom lesson for modern third-graders

By | December 17th, 2019|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

School counselor Holly Baxter had prepared for this moment for months. She gathered the third-graders of Red Oak Elementary on the carpet for story time, opened the picture book and began to read.

Casey, she said, likes to play with blocks and his dump truck, but he also loves things that glitter and shine.

Casey admires his

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Central American studies was the most important class I ever took

By | December 13th, 2019|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The U.S. southern border has become synonymous with crisis, and that crisis synonymous with the countries of Central America, particularly El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

In the ProPublica audio that went viral last year of crying children who were separated from their parents at the border, their tiny voices spoke a Central American vernacular of Spanish.

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