20200129 USSC PAO
📍 It's 1153 on Wednesday, January 29th. I am gonna be calling the United States Sentencing Commission Public Affairs Office to see if possibly they might have some answers about sentencing guidelines for section 1389.
Good morning. Nine states commission. Hi. I'm trying to find out information about a bill and how it got worked into, or not worked into the sentencing guidelines, um, that had to do with hate crimes and service, uh, against service members and, and veterans. Okay. We have a public affairs office. Hold a moment.
I'll see if someone's available a moment. Oh, okay. Welcome.
Hi, you've reached Jennifer Dukes Jordan with the United States Sentencing Commission. I'm currently on the phone or away from my desk. If you'd like, you can leave me a message. In that message, please include your name, your phone number, and what you're calling the commission about today. Um, if you'd like, you can also leave your email address if you'd like us to send you a publication or other resources, uh, from our website.
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Hi Jennifer. I'm sorry I didn't quite get your last name. Uh, my name is Logan Isaac. I'm calling to try to find out any information I can about. Um, whether or not in the extent to which sentencing guidelines were updated or amended, um, in 2009, um, as part of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the Matthew Shepherd and Jamesburg Junior Hate Crimes Prevention Act, there was a section of that act, section 47 12, um, that extended similar protections.
To service members and their families, and it appears as though it's never been enforced. There's, uh, in Amendment 7 43, it looks like the commission determined that most of the punishments, um, for violations of that act, um, which is now codified as law under title, title 18, section 1, 3 8, 9. Um, it looks like they, the commission basically said, look, these are the same as assault, minor assault, and property damage, and it looks like that's all they did with it.
I'm calling to find out if, if that's true, like, are the punishments prescribed by law? Under 1389. Any more stringent or less stringent than assault, minor assault and property damage. Um, and if not, what, how that section of Title 18 gets enforced, um, and whether or not there's any analysis or data or information on that.
The reason I ask is because I found, um, up to 1,351 individual victims, um, not to include their immediate family members that are also protected, um, that have been subject to hate crimes by domestic terrorists or, and or, um, far right extremists who are, who have anti-military views. My number is area code [redacted] and again, I'm trying to find out the, any kind of information or detail about the sentencing guidelines and how they were affected or not by Section 1 3 8 9 of Title 18, which was a part of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009.
I hope to hear back from you at your convenience. Uh, I prefer a phone call just because. I have a, I'm watching a five month old right now, and I, I typically don't get a whole lot of time. She happens to be asleep, but, um, if you call me back and leave me a, a number, um, then I, I'd love to set up a time to chat with you or whoever might be some kind of subject matter expert on this.
Thank you so much.
