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: Legal Pad | LAViolence against the homeless to be tracked as hate crimes
By Richard Binder
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously recommended that sheriff's deputies, prosecutors and the county Human Relations Commission start tracking and reporting attacks on the homeless as hate crimes. The vote came as the economy worsens and the number of homeless in the county increases -- with some shelters seeing four times as many people seeking help this winter.
Advocates for the homeless called the collection of such data a first step in changing policy and laws, although efforts to add the homeless to the state's hate crime law have failed in the past.
Read the full story at LA Times.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).
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