The council will be responsible for encouraging and coordinating programs that increase community awareness and reporting of hate crimes and to combat such crimes.
Gov. Ned Lamont formally announced the 25 people he has appointed to serve on the newly-formed Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council Tuesday. The council was.
HARTFORD The new Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council gathered with Gov. Ned Lamont in front of the Capitol on Tuesday morning, underscoring the rise in dangerous speech and crimes, and vowing to take a grass roots approach to the growing threat. On the other side of the Capitol, police were investigating an overnight shooting in which three bullets were fired into the south side of the building. The goal of the group is to raise.