New criminal laws aim to combat ethnic intimidation

LANSING Due to Michigan’s constant increase in hate crimes, the Legislature has updated state laws on hate crimes for the first time since 1988. Students, families and religious groups remain threatened by ethnic intimidation all over the state, experts say. In 2022, 11 percent of all reported hate crimes were religion-based, 5.4 percent were gender-based and 1.5 percent were disability-based,…

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