Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"I wrote the NO HATE Act to improve coordination between federal, state, and local agencies on hate crime reporting. Congress passed it into law to strengthen Americas response to the growing scourge of anti-AAPI hate, anti-Semitism, and white supremacist violence. 3/"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"The FBI hate crimes data and the briefing which presented them to Members of Congress were extremely disappointing both for the level of bias crimes they reported and for the large number of departments that failed to report any data at all. 2/"Read on Twitter
"This week I attended an FBI briefing in the Capitol on the FBIs release of hate crime statistics compiled through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This is a major issue to me as the author the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act, which was signed into law last year. 1/"Read on Twitter
"The link is not malicious, and clicking "continue" will simply take you to my account on Mastodon. Alternatively, you can find my account there at @RepDonBeyer@mas.totwitter.com/RepDonBeyer/st"Read on Twitter