California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Tuesday a pair of bills aimed at addressing harassment and hate in public spaces after Asian Americans pushed for action.
to create and implement a pilot program that will incentivize businesses to create environments for customers that are free of discrimination and harassment.
Though Asian American advocates and legislators led the bills, they are intended to help bolster protections for all marginalized communities, according to Stop AAPI Hate."The vast majority of incidents reported to us do not involve an underlying criminal element whatsoever," Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and executive director of the AAPI Equity Alliance, told Axios prior to the bills' signage.
"But I think that there actually continue to be a whole host of civil rights enforcement mechanisms that have been ignored, neglected, not fully utilized," she noted.
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