I went and did a little more reading on this and one thing I’m seeing is that they’re trying to say this is necessary because a lot of minorities don’t feel comfortable reporting potential hate crimes to the police because they don’t trust the police. I suspect this is going to become more common as an argument/excuse: “oppressed groups don’t trust the police (part of the government) so we need to enable our new human rights department (still part of the government) to track people’s speech so oppressed groups are still protected.” When in every case the remit of the “trustworthy” bit of government is always going to be wider than the “untrustworthy” bit of government, precisely because the latter deals with things actually passed into statute as crimes while the former can just make up what it deals with. And our rights to speech, privacy, and so forth shrink a little bit more, with probably the added bonus of them being able to borrow the “it’s not a criminal trial so you don’t need due process protections” claim from college Title IX departments.