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 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:
- Address hate and harassment on public transit
- Promote the safety and welfare of transit riders
- 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