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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 20, 2022

The U.S. Justice Department will release $5 million for states to establish hotlines to report hate crime, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced today. The funding is one of several steps Garland outlined to improve reporting and prosecution of hate crimes, which reached their highest level in more than a decade in 2020 (the most recent year for which figures are available). Garland also said the FBI is currently investigating three recent shootings — in Buffalo, New York, Dallas and southern California — as possible hate crimes. The department plans to issue new guidelines for raising awareness about hate crimes and will release another $5 million for community-based approaches in the future. Reuters has the story.