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Rick Callender, president of the California–Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP, told the committee that structural racism and targeted policing continue to harm Black Californians and urged investments in police oversight, restorative-justice programs in schools, health-care access and environmental justice measures in frontline communities.

Representatives from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) described intensified xenophobic federal rhetoric and aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles County. CHIRLA’s Janette Sunifatine recounted reports of warrantless arrests, denials of attorney access and arrests during routine immigration appointments; she called for state oversight, protections for court and USCIS access and stronger safeguards for privacy and due process.

David Bocarsley of the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California described a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents over the past five years and urged the legislature to treat antisemitism as a distinct, complex form of identity‑based hate, to pass protections like AB 715 for students and to fund security and education programs.

Eileen Louie of Asian Americans Advancing Justice–SoCal described language-access barriers and “disappearing” community members in AAPI enclaves after ICE actions, including reported business slowdowns and people missing from communities. She asked the legislature to keep courts ICE‑free, fund language-access legal assistance and protect longstanding API enclaves.

Usama Muqaddim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR‑California) and Tony Huang of Equality California described escalating Islamophobia and anti‑LGBTQ rhetoric, respectively. CAIR urged protections for free speech on campuses and restrictions on law-enforcement targeting of immigrant communities; Equality California urged state action to protect transgender youth, safeguard health data and expand nonprofit security grants for clinics and community centers.

Across the panel, common legislative requests included: clear public condemnation of targeted federal rhetoric, sustained funding for the nonprofit security grant program and Stop the Hate initiatives, expansion of language-access and legal-assistance funding, protections to prevent ICE enforcement actions at state courts and schools, and continued protection for DEI programming and transgender health care. Panelists asked the committee to share evidence-based public messaging strategies and to coordinate cross-community solidarity work.

Several panelists said they will provide written recommendations and stand ready for follow-up briefings to help the legislature craft bills and budget requests.

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Levin said the commission’s CHIS‑based survey suggests roughly 2.6 million Californians experienced at least one act of hate in a one-year period and that about 525,000 of those experiences were potentially criminal (physical violence or property damage). He said that comparison shows well over a half-million more victims of violence or property damage than are recorded in law-enforcement statistics.

The commission offered 19 interim policy recommendations. Levin highlighted several priorities: create permanent statewide data infrastructure to measure both criminal and noncriminal hate incidents beyond law-enforcement reports; require routine hate-crimes training for law enforcement and close the gap in refresher training; increase investments in victim and community services, including nonprofit security grants, “California versus Hate” hotlines and Stop the Hate grants; and tailor K–12 prevention and public-messaging strategies that research shows can reduce hate incidents when political and community leaders speak with appropriate, de-escalating language.

Levin cited research connecting political rhetoric and spikes in hate incidents and described pilot efforts with POST (the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training) to develop training for officers. He said the commission will publish full reports and interim recommendations and invited the committee to request the documents.

The commission’s recommendations aim to increase reporting, improve investigator and prosecutor capacity, expand victim services and use evidence-based public messages to counter hate.

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The report, Brown said, found increases in both reported hate crime events and reported victims in 2024. Reported hate crime events rose 2.7% from 1,970 in 2023 to 2,023 in 2024; hate crime offenses rose 8.9% from 2,359 to 2,568; and the number of reported hate crime victims rose 8.2% from 2,303 to 2,491. Brown said anti-Black bias events remained the single largest category of reported incidents, reporting 578 incidents in 2024, while anti-Hispanic/Latino incidents numbered 255. He also said anti-Jewish incidents rose from 289 in 2023 to 310 in 2024, and anti-Asian incidents fell slightly.

Brown summarized enforcement outcomes the DOJ is tracking: referrals for prosecution increased from 679 in 2023 to 818 in 2024; of those 818 referred events, 506 were filed by district or city attorneys and 327 of those filings were charged as hate crimes. He stressed the limits of reported data and said the DOJ believes the actual number of hate incidents is much higher because hate is frequently underreported.

Committee members asked for more granular counts and clarifications. Brown explained the difference between hate crime events and hate crime offenses — an event can include multiple offenses and victims — and provided the DOJ breakdown for 2024: 1,679 violent hate-crime offenses (ranging from aggravated assault to homicide), 796 property offenses (burglary, arson, motor-vehicle theft and similar), and 93 multiple-bias incidents. He also described DOJ resources released this year: updated law-enforcement bulletins, multilingual victim fact sheets, a rapid-response protocol for deploying DOJ resources, guidance to prosecutors and the department’s public data portal where historical data since 1995 are available.

Brown closed by reaffirming the DOJ’s commitment to partnering with law enforcement and community organizations on training, outreach and prosecution and said the department stands ready to answer follow-up requests from the committee.

The committee’s follow-up actions include requests for the full 2024 report and related DOJ guidance so members can review recommended legislative responses and resource needs.

","The California Department of Justice told a legislative select committee that reported hate crime events and reported victims increased in 2024, with anti-Black incidents remaining the largest single category. DOJ officials urged better data collection, training for law enforcement and community outreach.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6553271,"Racial Equity Commission outlines statewide framework timeline, community engagement and evaluation grant",234,12068000,12302000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5071573-622676f7d22dc779999b1a8b8d2155a1&start=12068&end=12302","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5071573-622676f7d22dc779999b1a8b8d2155a1/thumbnail_12068000.jpg","/articles/6553271/California/Racial-Equity-Commission-outlines-statewide-framework-timeline-community-engagement-and-evaluation-grant","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6553271-254d5959acbca62954bdd35f6093ce01/orig.mp4?Expires=1770492992&Signature=DcBOBqjJQNC67joVV0LTbiro5opzCh7eaKFjkO8w1bpfqzC0GxCZ2ZTyigUGzdaJEO35Gpl~qtAaYAoQnFz5xzcIk1UnCVspIRCKrmcYr2tmq8HgwcQ0k5zW1vovE6lLD3dgrpu9CdAgoqewjt4iJi8tfoAGNy9G5FA47m0aFPabLJkGu~ql~78B6LHK5xbmYp9RA-Yv4GS0KRSjNnX58PIiFguYIkmKE9h4DkUNw21qtwlAR760n~NJfJPENohhHRb2ehAoa8ZY9xMs3xG-LieRowqIfa8l3YcpaSjugLVY8uAQJnlqACkQL89WadR~Uhi1MO2BVE~Iu~yymaEZRw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Dr. Larissa Estes, executive director of the Racial Equity Commission, told the Assembly select committee the commission is developing a statewide Racial Equity Framework that will be delivered to the Legislature and the administration no later than Dec. 1.

Estes described an extensive engagement effort: more than 40 hours of public commission meetings since January 2024, more than 150 hours of direct engagement with community organizations, in-person meetings across the state and roughly 700 residents participating in community-centered gatherings. She said the commission is raising resources to support community engagement — noting about $170,000 in community-engagement grants — and has been awarded a $200,000 grant for evaluation of framework implementation.

The commission’s stated priorities include accessible, actionable tools for agencies and community partners, technical assistance to state and local governments, and approaches that center race and intersectionality. Estes said agencies reported barriers to effective community engagement such as lack of funds to compensate participants and insufficient language access, and the commission is emphasizing plain-language materials and disaggregated data to avoid “data erasure” of smaller groups.

Estes invited committee members to participate in upcoming field meetings, announced additional listening sessions (including Spanish- and Indigenous-language work) and said the commission will continue to brief the Legislature as recommendations are finalized.

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