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Marion County prosecutor urges victims to report bias, promotes new hotline and blue-envelope program
Summary
Marion County Prosecutor's Office outreach coordinator explained limits of Indiana's hate-crime law, announced a voicemail hotline for bias incidents, and described a 'blue envelope' program for people with disabilities; office also reported a surge in interest for the envelope program and other community initiatives.
Ellie Campbell, community outreach program and victim advocate at the Marion County Prosecutor's Office, asked neighborhood residents to report suspected hate crimes to police and described a prosecutor-run voicemail hotline that staff will check and return within business days.
Campbell said Indiana treats bias as a sentencing aggravator rather than a separate criminal charge and urged victims to make the bias element explicit when they first speak to law enforcement. "If we take away nothing else from this presentation ... if you believe you've been the victim of a hate crime and you're reporting that to police, please clearly state that to them," Campbell said.
The Prosecutor's Office has a dedicated voicemail line for bias incidents and hate-crime reports: (317) 327-5314. Campbell described how the line works: callers leave a message and a trained advocate (she said she checks…
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