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The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was a piece of legislation that “provides funding and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions to help them to more effectively investigate and prosecute hate crimes.” 

It created a designation for hate crimes with a gender identity bias that didn’t exist before on a federal level.

“By the end of 2013, the Department of Justice , and last year the White House reported ,”

Initially proposed legislation during the late Clinton administration, it was finally passed during the Obama administration, almost 10 years later.

 

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Published April 2025