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Anti-Harassment Law Signed in California
By Hans Johnson
In early October, California governor Gray Davis (D) signed into law a bill protecting students and faculty members at the state’s public university campuses from harassment based on sexual orientation. The new protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and educators, which took effect January 1, make California the first among the four states with similar laws to extend provisions covering K–12 public schools to higher education and the first to include faculty along with students.
The signing, which frustrated calls for a veto by groups who opposed the bill, followed conversations between Davis and Judy Shepard, the mother of slain Wyoming college student, Matthew Shepard, killed in 1998 during an antigay attack
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