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22 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 1 (2022-2023)

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   CONNECTICUT PUBLIC

INTEREST LAW JOURNAL



VOLUME  22  FALL - WINTER 2022  NUMBER 1


       Weaponized Anonymity: The Continuing
   Marginalization  of Communities   of Color through
Racially-Biased  Anonymous Processes in U.S. Society


                                        BY WILLIAM Y. CHIN*


                     ARTICLE CONTENTS

I.  IN TRODUCTION      .................................................................................  2
II. WEAPONIZING ANONYMITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECTOR ....... 4
  A. RACIALLY-BIASED ANONYMOUS EMERGENCY 911 REPORTS ........... 4
  B. REMEDYING RACIALLY-BIASED ANONYMOUS EMERGENCY 911
  REPORTS................................................................................................... 5
III.  WEAPONIZING ANONYMITY IN THE RESIDENTIAL SECTOR OF
S O C IETY ....................................................................................................  7
  A. RACIALLY-BIASED ANONYMOUS NON-EMERGENCY NUISANCE
  COMPLAINTS ............................................................................................ 7
  B. REMEDYING RACIALLY-BIASED ANONYMOUS NUISANCE
  COMPLAINTS ............................................................................................ 9
IV.   WEAPONIZING ANONYMITY IN THE IMMIGRATION SECTOR......... 11
  A. RACIALLY-BIASED ANONYMOUS REPORTING AGAINST IMMIGRANTS
  ............................................................................................................... 11


  *Professor Chin teaches Race and the Law and other courses at Lewis & Clark Law School.
Professor Chin thanks Sedi Caine for her diligent and thorough research assistance. Professor Chin also
thanks the Paul L. Boley Law Library staff members for their assistance.