California expands hate crime law to prohibit hanging a noose in the workplace
The California Penal Code prohibits the display of certain symbols or crosses on private or school property with the intent to terrorize a person and provides for penalties of fines and imprisonment in the county jail for violators. Effective January 1, this law is amended to further prohibit a person from hanging a noose, knowing it to be a threat to life, for the purpose of terrorizing a person, at a place of employment, as well as on private property, schools or public parks, and imposes fines of up to $5,000, imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year, or both, for a first conviction, and fines of up to $15,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year for subsequent convictions.
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(Submitted Aug. 17, 2009)
<p>California expands hate crime law to prohibit hanging a noose in the workplace The California Penal Code prohibits the display of certain symbols or crosses on private or school property with the intent to terrorize a person and provides for</p>
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