10-02-2007, 09:54 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Fourth Plain Village WA
Posts: 4,825
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I think I am going to add this to this thread so people can know what Matthew Shepard Act are. Here's what I found from Wikipedia.
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The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (LLEHCPA; sometimes called the Matthew Shepard Act), HR 1592, would expand the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The bill would also:
remove the current prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally-protected activity, like voting or going to school;
give federal authorities greater ability to engage in hate crimes investigations that local authorities choose not to pursue;
provide $10 million in funding for 2008 and 2009 to help State and local agencies pay for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes;
require the FBI to track statistics on hate crimes against transgender people (statistics for the other groups are already tracked).
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hey everyone, I know some of you guys tried to pm me or leaving a message on my profile. I am very sorry that I haven't been around here lately because I went up to Puyallup State Fair working with my parents, and then I decided to go to Yakima Fair with my parents to work more, somehow when I came back and discovered that my computer had collasped. So I won't be using the computer as often as I was used to.
Thanks everyone 
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