claim: only five states, including georgia, do not have a hate crimes law.
author: various media reports
evidence_1: jan 10, 2019 ... as one of only five states without a hate crime law, many bills have been ... the  45 states with a hate crime law vary in terms of what specific groups are included.  ... this may or may not align with a person's assigned sex at birth. ... georgia  passed a hate crime bill in 2000 that prohibited crimes against an ...
evidence_2: sep 5, 2018 ... five states don't have laws that specifically criminalize hate crimes. ... the state is  one of only five – along with arkansas, georgia, south carolina ... however, 13  states do not include sexual orientation, and 33 do not include ...
evidence_3: hate crime laws in the united states are state and federal laws intended to  protect against hate ... u.s. district courts provide for criminal sanctions only. ....  please note that the figures in the table below do not contain data from all  reporting ... d.c. have hate crime laws that include the homeless status of an  individual.
evidence_4: aside from the five states which have no law whatsoever (georgia, south  carolina, ... only 32 state hate crime laws include sexual orientation, only 31  include disability, ... -enact hate crime laws in the five remaining states that do not  have hate ...
evidence_5: address hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation only. 12 states. all but  five states (arkansas, georgia, indiana, south carolina and wyoming) have ... * laws lacking lgbt inclusion: states that have a law that addresses hate or bias  ... but do not address sexual orientation or gender identity (15 states): alabama, ...