NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League launched a new Web site Monday to serve as a database for law enforcement officials investigating hate groups.
ADL Director Abraham Foxman said the site will be used to identify and monitor extremist groups.
“New technology has changed the business of fighting hate,” Foxman said.
The Web site will allow police to search for symbols they might find on literature or tattoos; track hate group meetings and rallies on a state-by-state calendar; and obtain background on leaders and publications of white supremacist movements, anti-abortion groups that advocate violence and others.
Foxman likened the Web site to laws enacted in the South more than 30 years ago barring Ku Klux Klansman from wearing masks.
