Description: Enforces California's Civil Rights statutes that protects against hate crimes, intimidation or interference with state or federal statutory or constitutional rights.
A hate crime is a crime against a person, group, or property motivated by the victim's real or perceived protected social group. You may be the victim of a hate crime if you have been targeted because of your actual or perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics
Steps if you are a victim of a hate crime:
Call the police immediately
Seek medical attention, if necessary
Document the exact words spoken to you by the criminal, as soon as practical
Photograph property damages, if applicable
Save any evidence which might aid in the apprehension and prosecution of the criminal
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