Dissemination of Hate Crimes Information

(1) The Crime Reporting Unit shall collect all hate crimes and hate incident data reported by police departments, law enforcement agencies, advocacy organizations, and civil rights agencies. The Crime Reporting Unit shall forward hate crimes reports to the Attorney General on a regular basis. (2) The Crime Reporting Unit shall summarize and analyze hate crimes data, and its summaries and analyses of hate crimes data shall be organized on an annual basis into an Annual Report to be distributed in accordance with M.G.L. c. 22C, § 34. (3) Summaries and analyses of hate crimes data prepared for the Annual Report shall reflect the following information: (a) overall incidence of hate crimes for the Commonwealth for the reporting period; (b) incidence of hate crimes by city and town, and by type of bias motivation indicated; (c) incidence of hate crimes by type of criminal act involved; (d) incidence of hate crimes by types of targets and injuries involved; (e) statistical analyses of types of victims by age, race/ethnicity, sex, and extent of injury; (f) statistical analyses of types of perpetrators by age, race/ethnicity, sex, and frequencies of arrests, and convictions; (g) incidence of hate crimes by weapons used; (h) trends in the frequency, locales, and types of hate crimes reported; (i) narrative, interpretive, and qualifying elaboration of the information presented at a-h, and the overall hate crimes data gathered for the reporting period. (4) Hate incident data shall be summarized, analyzed, and reported in the Annual Reports to afford a basis for comparison with hate crimes data obtained through law enforcement sources. Summaries, analyses, and reports of hate incident data shall reflect the information specified at 501 CMR 4.07(3)(a), (b), (d) through (f), (h) and (i), and in addition, the extent to which hate incidents are reported to the police.