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Commission approves minutes, hears subcommittee updates and sets next forums
Summary
The California Commission on the State of Hate approved prior meeting minutes, received subcommittee updates on data, policy and community forums (including a CHIS contract and a Sept. 26 Bay Area forum), and noted Commissioner Senar will step down in August for a fellowship.
The commission voted to approve minutes from its May community forum and the previous commission meeting. Commissioner Damsky moved approval of the community forum minutes (correction to a tribal name) and Commissioner Cuellar moved approval of the last commission meeting minutes; both motions passed on roll-call votes.
Subcommittee updates covered ongoing projects and near-term plans. The data and research subcommittee reported a signed contract with the California Health Interview Survey to continue data collection through 2025, ongoing literature reviews and a planned fall research convening with the Institute for the Study of Hate at UCLA. Commissioner Senar announced she will step down in August to accept an academic fellowship and said a consultant memo on community-based responses to victims (drafted by Helena Barucha) is in review.
The policy recommendations subcommittee reported work compiling tools and trainings from other jurisdictions and began planning for election-season risk recommendations, noting concerns about Project 2025, misinformation and recent media errors that have fueled community harm. The community forums subcommittee announced a Sept. 26 Bay Area forum focused on people with disabilities and a later Fresno forum focused on community response.
Why it matters: the approvals maintain regular commission governance; the CHIS contract and research products directly support the commission’s evidence base; the forum schedule identifies outreach priorities for fall 2024.
What happens next: staff and subcommittee chairs will finalize the consultant memo, schedule public presentations of research findings when ready, circulate the CHIS and other data links, and continue planning the September and fall community forums.
