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ORDINANCE NO. 2020 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING ARTICLE I OF CHAPTER 195 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES ENTITLED "ANTI- SEMITISM IN ENFORCING LAWS" TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN SECTION 195-3(A) AND ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF ANTI-SEMITISM RELATED TO ISRAEL IN SECTION 195-3(B); PROVIDING FOR REPEALER; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE CITY CODE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City of Sunny Isles Beach ("City") adopted Ordinance Number 2018- 516, creating Chapter 195 in the Code of Ordinances of the City of Sunny Isles Beach entitled "Police Regulations" which created a new article entitled "Consider Anti-Semitism in Enforcing Laws"; and WHEREAS, the stated purpose of the ordinance was to ensure that the City's Police Department consider potential anti-Semitic motivation for criminal offenses in order to guard the safety and well-being of the City's Jewish community; and WHEREAS, the United States Department of State's Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism published a fact sheet issued June 8, 2010 containing a proposed working definition and providing contemporary examples of anti-Semitism, which were incorporated and codified into Section 195-3 of the City's Code of Ordinances; and WHEREAS, in adopting Ordinance Number 2018-516, the City Commission sought to require its Police Department to consider that definition and the examples in the ordinance in investigating crimes, in a manner consistent with the federal hate crime statute, 18 U.S.C. §249 and the state hate crime statute, Fla. Stat. §775.085, as both may be amended from time to time; and WHEREAS, since the adoption of Ordinance Number 2018-516, the City has been made aware of a working definition of antisemitism that was adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ("IHRA"), by consensus vote of its member states, which has become the internationally recognized, authoritative definition for use by governments and international organizations; and WHEREAS, the working definition of anti-Semitism by the IHRA includes contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere; and WHEREAS, many of the examples in the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism were already included in Chapter 195 of the City's Code of Ordinances, however, a select number of examples were not; and WHEREAS, the City Commission now wishes to amend Section 195-3 of the City's Code of Ordinances to supplement and expand the examples of anti-Semitism to include those in the IHRA working definition; and Underline denotes revisions during first reading— Bold Underline denotes revisions during second reading. Paget of 4