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Maryland's new hate-crime website hoped to boost reporting | StateScoop
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced a new online reporting system hoped to improve the statistics on hate crimes and "hate biases."
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Augmenting a telephone hotline that opened in 2016, the website offers an additional means of reporting hate crimes and “hate biases,” acts that are not illegal, but that include behaviors like verbal abuse and displaying hate literature in public. The new reporting tool is hoped to improve the quality of data used to inform the state’s anti-hate efforts, such as the work of a task force created in 2021.