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Attorney General urges new subpoena power, data reporting in hate‑crime reform bill
Summary
Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell told the joint committee that Massachusetts should expand state civil‑rights investigatory tools, add protective classes to hate‑crime law, and require mandatory hate‑crime data reporting to better prevent bias incidents.
Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and civil‑rights division leaders asked the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to give S.1126 and H.1920 a favorable report, saying the Commonwealth must strengthen tools to investigate and prosecute bias and hate incidents.
"I am here to testify with respect to my support and strong support of S.1126 and H.1920, an act relative to combating hate in the Commonwealth," Campbell told the committee, describing an increase in targeted harassment and…
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