June 13, 2025
9:00 AM
to
10:00 AM
The President's Track
Presented by the Executive Committee
Can't Attend the 2025 Connecticut Legal Conference in person?
Select the virtual attendee option when registering for the conference and you'll get streaming access to the four President's Track seminars. Streaming access is limited to only these four seminars; all conference registrants will receive a complementary digital catalogue of all audio recordings of the conference’s seminars available through the rest of 2025.
About the Program
This panel will present the measures taken by the state of Connecticut’s Hate Crimes Advisory Council (HCAC) to improve the ability of state agencies and the public to prevent, identify, and respond to hate crimes. Council members worked with the Police Officer Standards and Training Council to create a new hate crime reporting form and model hate crime policy for law enforcement and state and local police training. The HCAC has launched a new community reporting mechanism ReportHate.CT.Gov and engaged in public outreach efforts. In the 2025 legislative session, the HCAC promoted new legislation including proposing a new act to consolidate the disparate and inconsistent hate crimes states, requesting an FOI exemption for the names and addresses of victims of hate crimes, and permitting a community impact statement that would allow community representatives to submit testimony at a sentencing hearing.
You Will Learn
• About the laws, policies, and procedures to address hate crimes in the state of Connecticut
• How lawyers, judges, law students, and other legal professionals may assist in preventing and combating hate crimes
Who Should Attend
Any attorneys interested in how Connecticut is addressing hate crimes.
Credit
CT: 1.0 CLE Credit (Ethics)
NY: 1.0 CLE Credit (D&I)
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for experienced attorney CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml