Madison, NJ (May 26, 2011) – The United States Asian American Law Enforcement Foundation hosted a panel discussion with law enforcement experts representing local, county, state and federal agencies Thursday at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Members of the Asian-American community praised the role of each participating agency, how they have interacted with its members and what steps the agencies are taking to further enhance their relationships with this community.

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The United States Asian American Law Enforcement Foundation is hosting a panel discussion with law enforcement experts representing local, county, state and federal agencies on May 26, 2011, 4:00 p.m. at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in the Petrocelli College common room, 150 Kotte Place, Hackensack, N.J.

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Sacramento, Calif. (March 7, 2011) – The Sikh American community of Sacramento together with leaders of local civil rights and interfaith organizations held a press conference Monday, to announce a reward of $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooting of two elderly Sikh American men this past Friday in Elk Grove, Calif.

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WASHINGTON (February 7, 2011) – The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday the availability of approximately $20 million in grants through its Civic Justice Corps program. Projects funded through these grants will help juvenile offenders gain valuable jobs skills, and participants will demonstrate accountability for their actions through community service.

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CLEVELAND – Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, a nationwide provider of postsecondary education, engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful discrimination by refusing to hire a class of black job applicants nationwide, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit it announced today.

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November 29, 2010: Earlier today, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) called on local authorities and the FBI to initiate a hate crime investigation into a vicious attack on a Sikh American cab driver in Sacramento, who was allegedly called Osama bin Laden as he was attacked. Early yesterday morning, 56-year-old Harbhajan Singh, a cab driver in Sacramento, CA, was brutally assaulted after picking up passengers at a local restaurant. Singh believes, if he had not gotten away, the two men who attacked him would have killed him.

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Hector Police Chief Khang Duy (Mike) Nguyen

By TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer

Khang Duy (Mike) Nguyen may be the first Asian American chief of police for a municipality in the State of Minnesota.

For the past six months Nguyen has served as the Chief of Police for Hector, Minnesota, a town of about 1,200 people in Renville County, about 90 miles slightly southwest of St. Paul. It is a part-time position, however, he is in charge of two fulltime officers, and seven part-time officers.

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St. Paul, Minn. (July 9, 2010) – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today asked the FBI to investigate recent graffiti spray-painted on a St. Cloud business as a possible hate crime. The Hormud Market, owned by a Somali Muslim St. Cloud resident, was spray painted with the words, “Go Home” on Thursday, July 8.

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St. Paul, Minn. (June 23, 2010) – Last week in a federal court in St. Paul, a 57-year-old St. Paul woman was sentenced for bringing endangered-species parts into the country. United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Seng Her to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service on one count of smuggling goods into the U.S. She was indicted on December 9, 2009, and pleaded guilty on February 11, 2010.

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Vientiane, Laos (May 6, 2010) – United States Ambassador to Laos, Ravic R. Huso, signed an Amendment to the Letter of Agreement last week on behalf of the U.S. Government for bilateral cooperation with the Government of Laos in support of counter narcotics and law enforcement.

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