Enforces California's Civil Rights statutes that protects against hate crimes, intimidation or interference with state or federal statutory or constitutional rights.
A hate crime is a crime against a person, group, or property motivated by the victim's real or perceived protected social group. You may be the victim of a hate crime if you have been targeted because of your actual or perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics
Steps if you are a victim of a hate crime:
- Call the police immediately
- Seek medical attention, if necessary
- Document the exact words spoken to you by the criminal, as soon as practical
- Photograph property damages, if applicable
- Save any evidence which might aid in the apprehension and prosecution of the criminal
Responding to Hate Crimes, Racism, and Antisemitism in Marin, here
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