Keith Hoffman
Chief, Civil & Community Rights Unit, Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General
2022
Keith Hoffmann is the Chief of the Civil and Community Rights Unit in the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office. In that role, and as a member of the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Team, he is responsible for a variety of matters including hate crimes enforcement, prosecution of landlords in cases related to child lead poisoning, and various civil rights investigations and actions. He helped to develop and implement Rhode Island’s Hate Crimes and Civil Rights Liaison Officer program, through which every police department in the state has appointed and trained a liaison officer for bias-motivated crimes and incidents. He also serves on the Rhode Island Commission on Prejudice and Bias and organized the Attorney General’s first Hate Crimes Summit for law enforcement in 2021.
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