Nearly 50 arson investigators, firefighters, and law enforcement officers participated in a hate crimes training session presented by ADL in San Antonio.  The session, which covered hate crime laws, hate crime victims, reporting hate crimes and how to recognize the signs, symbols and tattoos of people who act on their hate, lasted four hours and provided continuing education credit for the

  ADL’s Southwest Region will present a Centennial Hate Crimes Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 17 at the state Capitol in Austin, featuring a former Department of Justice prosecutor, ADL’s National Civil Rights Director, a U.S. attorney and Austin’s Police Chief. Keynote Speaker Professor Mark Kappelhoff teaches at the University of Minnesota School of Law, and