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hate crimes

After Church Was Shot, Renewed Focus On Kentucky’s Hate Crime Laws

By Graham Ambrose, Investigative Reporter, Youth and Social Services | June 15, 2020

Crimes motivated by hate aren’t treated much differently than other crimes under Kentucky state law. 

Criminal Justice

Years Later, A Kentucky Hate Crime Still Reverberates

By Eleanor Klibanoff | February 8, 2018

July 2, 2004, was not the last time a hateful act was committed in Kentucky. It wasn’t even the last cross burning. But it remains the last time anyone went to federal prison for a racially-motivated hate crime in Kentucky.

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