North Dakota
ND Legislature considers bill addressing bias crimes
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Lawmakers in Bismarck are contemplating a invoice regarding hate crimes.
Home Invoice 1537 would outline “bias crimes” within the North Dakota Century Code and would gather info on them and the teams or people who commit these offenses. It might additionally require law enforcement officials, sheriffs, state troopers, and others to obtain particular coaching about how to answer bias crimes.
”We may present the curriculum, we may create the course, which is already created as a result of I train it within the academy already, and we are able to present that to all of the businesses within the state, with the mandate that they themselves introduced to their officers,” stated Lieutenant Daniel Haugen, chairman of the Peace Officers Requirements and Coaching Board.
In keeping with the invoice sponsor, Consultant Mary Schneider of Fargo, North Dakota is considered one of solely 5 states that doesn’t have legal guidelines on the books particularly regarding hate crimes.
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