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Requires the Attorney General to verify whether large local governments are accurately reporting hate crimes to the federal system. If a jurisdiction is not reporting honestly, the Department of Justice must withhold certain public safety grant funds. It defines which large jurisdictions and hate crimes are covered, allows an exception when a jurisdiction conducts significant public education on hate-crime awareness and reporting, and directs DOJ to publish an annual report describing any exceptions granted and why.
Adds new subsections (j) through (m) to Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156).
The Attorney General must, beginning not later than three years after enactment, establish a method and use it to evaluate—using data acquired under the Hate Crimes Statistics Act (34 U.S.C. 41305)—whether a covered jurisdiction has credibly reported hate crimes.
As part of the evaluation, the Attorney General must determine for each year whether a covered jurisdiction (1) has not reported hate crime data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or (2) has reported zero hate crime incidents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A covered jurisdiction found not to have credibly reported hate crimes after the evaluation shall not be eligible for an allocation under Section 505.
Exception to the ineligibility: a covered jurisdiction found not to have credibly reported is not subject to the ineligibility if the Attorney General certifies that the jurisdiction has conducted 'significant community public education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes.'
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced April 2, 2025 by Donald Sternoff Beyer · Last progress April 2, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House