Federal Prosecutor Focuses On Hate Crimes

{Lexington, Kentucky}...Kentucky State Police statistics show there were 69 hate crimes reported in Kentucky in 2010. U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey, the top federal prosecutor for central and eastern Kentucky, held civil rights training Thursday for about 100 state and local police and prosecutors to explain changes in the federal hate crime law. Harvey says he is making enforcement of federal civil rights laws a priority and will go after people accused of hate crimes. Congress broadened the law in 2009 to include crimes motivated by a victim's sexual orientation, disability and gender.