Office Of Attorney General Receives Over $833K To Address Hate Crimes In Maryland

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh connected Wednesday announced the Office of Attorney General received an $833,334 assistance from the Department of Justice to code hatred crimes successful the state.

The bureau said Maryland has seen a crisp emergence successful hatred crimes and bias incidents since 2016. There were 382 hatred bias incidents reported by Maryland instrumentality enforcement agencies successful 2020, according to the State of Maryland 2020 Hate Bias Report.

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According to the office, the authorities faces challenges engaging instrumentality enforcement and community-based organizations successful areas impacted by hatred activity, and successful securing justness for victims done prosecution.

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Officials said the DOJ assistance volition money a 3 twelvemonth effort to:

• enhancing community-based concern by creating a Hate Crimes Task Force comprised of instrumentality enforcement, civilian rights agencies and community-based organizations;
• develop a statewide hatred transgression web portal;
• conduct determination hatred transgression summits;
• and bid instrumentality enforcement and prosecutors.

“All Maryland citizens and visitors person a close to unrecorded without fearfulness that they volition beryllium attacked oregon targeted due to the fact that of their race, religion, intersexual orientation, oregon gender,” Frosh said.  “This assistance volition let my bureau to pb a broad effort to bid instrumentality enforcement agencies and prosecute partners to place and respond to hatred crimes.  We volition not let hatred to dispersed unchecked wrong our communities.”

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CBS Baltimore Staff