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Street harassment is a serious problem.

Whether it happens in the street, at the store, or on public transit, street harassment - or unwelcome comments, gestures, or other contact from strangers - is a serious problem that causes millions of people to feel unsafe in the communities they call home.

It’s even worse for marginalized groups – including women and girls, people of color, and members of the disabled and LGBTQ+ communities – who are disproportionately harmed by street harassment. It should not and does not have to be this way.

No Place For Hate California is a statewide campaign to shift the burden of confronting hate and harassment away from victims and survivors and toward public agencies. Last year, in 2022, we passed historic legislation in California to make public transit and businesses safer and more accessible for all. In 2023, we are coming back to continue what we started.


About our campaign

What we have achieved

Last year, we passed following two bills, which went into effect on January 1, 2023:

The Increasing Safety for Public Transit Riders Bill (SB-1161) directed the creation of a community survey tool to help transit agencies and the public understand how harassment affects riders.

The Protecting Customers’ Civil Rights at Businesses Bill (AB-2448) directed the state agency in charge of protecting our rights to create a pilot program to motivate businesses to build a harassment-free environment for customers.

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What we have achieved

Last year, we secured the passage of the following two bills, which went into effect on January 1, 2023:

The Increasing Safety for Public Transit Riders Bill (SB-1161) directed the creation of a community survey tool to help transit agencies and the public understand how harassment affects riders.

The Protecting Customers’ Civil Rights at Businesses Bill (AB-2448) directed the state agency in charge of protecting our rights to create a pilot program to motivate businesses to build a harassment-free environment for customers.

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What we are advocating for

The Public Transit For All: Improving Safety & Increasing Ridership Bill (SB-434) will require California’s top ten public transit systems to collect data on hate and harassment, which can be used as a foundation for building evidence-based safety solutions that:

  1. Address hate and harassment on public transit
  2. Promote the safety and welfare of transit riders
  3. Increase public transit ridership

Authored by California State Senator Dave Min (Orange County), this bill builds on the Increasing Safety for Public Transit Riders bill (2022), which authorized the creation of a community survey tool.

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PAST ENDORSEMENTS

The following organizations have supported at least one bill under the No Place For Hate California campaign.

AAPI Equity Alliance

AAPIs For Civic Empowerment Education Fund

ACLU California Action

African Advocacy Network

Alliance for Girls

Anti-Defamation League

Apex Express

API Equality-LA

Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of the North Bay

Asian Americans in Action

Asian Health Services

Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC)

Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance

Asian Pacific Community Fund

Asian Solidarity Collective

Asian Youth Center (AYC)

AYPAL:Building API Community Power

The Betti Ono Foundation

Black Women for Wellness

CA Domestic Workers Coalition

California Asian & Pacific Islander (API) Legislative Caucus

California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs

California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls

California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative

Cambodia Town, Inc.

Center for Asian Americans in Action

Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE)

Center for the Pacific Asian Family

Chinatown Service Center

Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Chinese Progressive Association

City & County of San Francisco Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault, Response and Prevention

Clean Water Action

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto

Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety

Contigo Communications

Council on American-Islamic Relations, California Chapter

Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)

Equal Justice Society

Food Empowerment Project

Gender Justice LA

Heart of Los Angeles

Hmong Innovating Politics

Hope Community Services

Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective

Japantown Task Force, Inc. (San Francisco)

Khmer Girls in Action

Korean American Center

Korean American Coalition

Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco

Korean American Family Services, Inc.

Korean Community Center of the East Bay (KCCEB)

La Raza Community Resource Center

Little Tokyo Service Center

LL's Private Practice

Los Angeles Board of Supervisors

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana

Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project

National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse

National Pacific Islander Education Network

North East Medical Services

OCA - Sacramento Chapter

Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)

Pacific Asian Counseling Services

People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER)

Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles

Reinvent Stockton Foundation/Stockton Scholars

Saahas for Cause

San Francisco Board of Supervisors

San Francisco Transit Riders

Self-Help for the Elderly

Silicon Valley Asian Pacific American Democratic Club

Solsken

SOMA Pilipinas - SF Filipino Cultural Heritage District

South Asian Network

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center

Southeast Asian Community Center

Southeast Asian Development Center

Special Service for Groups/API Forward Movement

Stop AAPI Hate

Thai Community Development Center

The Cambodian Family Community Center

The Unity Council

The Women's Building

Tranzito

UC Student Association

United Steelworkers District 12

Visual Communications Media

Women's Foundation California

Women's Voices for the Earth

Wu Yee Children's Services

Youth Against Hate