"People who suffer hate crimes from our community - and specifically trans women of color who experience hate crimes, who are victims of crimes, they are victimized twice," he said. "First the crime itself, second - everybody ignoring it."
The Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the creation of a permanent Conviction Integrity and Expungement Unit to investigate wrongful convictions and help people clear their records.
Staff at the San Francisco District Attorney s office will be required to ask, and then use, the correct names, pronouns, and titles for transgender and nonbinary crime victims, witnesses, and the accused, according to a new policy announced June 30.
The policy, effective Wednesday, will also allow charging documents to be amended to use their preferred names if the person accused of a crime requests it, though legal names will also continue to be listed secondarily on all charging documents for the purposes of criminal record-keeping.
At an afternoon news conference held after a Pride party at District Attorney Chesa Boudin s office in the Potrero Hill neighborhood the city s chief law enforcement officer said that it is the first policy of its kind in any California prosecutor s office.
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