Minnesota lawmakers are mulling a change to state law that would log alleged bias incidents even when they aren't considered a crime — leading one lawmaker to say the plan would create a “thoughtcrime” database.
A bill pitched in January would allow people to report perceived bias-related incidents such as alleged slurs and verbal attacks that would fall outside the hate crimes compiled annually by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, according to the St. Cloud Times.
Each alleged incident would include information about the perceived offender and victim “relevant to that bias,” according to the law.