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==Projects and publishing platforms==

===Hate Map===
{{main|List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups|List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups}}

In 1990, the SPLC began to publish an "annual census of hate groups operating within the United States".<ref name="SPLC_hatemap_intro">{{Cite web| title = Hate Map| work = Southern Poverty Law Center| access-date = June 22, 2020| url = https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map| archive-date = March 6, 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230306154650/https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map| url-status = live}}</ref>

====Classifications and listings of hate groups====

Over the years the classifications and listings of hate groups expanded to reflect current social phenomena. By the 2000s, the term "hate groups" included organizations it has assessed either "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics". The SPLC says that hate group activities may include speeches, marches, rallies, meetings, publishing, and leafleting. While some of these activities may include criminal acts, such as violence, not all the activities tracked by the SPLC are illegal or criminal.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Blazak, Randy|editor1-last=Perry|editor1-first=Barbara|editor2-last=Levin|editor2-first=Brian|title=Hate Crimes: Volume 1, Understanding and Defining Hate Crimes|date=2009|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=978-0275995737|pages=133, 143|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7p6TDR1zwcC&q=british%7CAnglo+Israelism+tenets&pg=PA133|chapter=Chapter 8: Towards a Working Definition of Hate Groups|access-date=March 14, 2021|archive-date=June 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605231106/https://books.google.com/books?id=M7p6TDR1zwcC&q=british%7CAnglo+Israelism+tenets&pg=PA133|url-status=live}}</ref>

Groups that have been included as "hate groups" by the SPLC who reject that labelling include, for example, self-described [[Men's rights movement|men's rights groups]] [[A Voice for Men]] and Return of Kings, which the SPLC had described as "male supremacist", according to a 2018 ''Washington Post'' article.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Heim|first1=Joe|title=Hate groups in the U.S. remain on the rise, according to new study|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/hate-groups-in-the-us-remain-on-the-rise-according-to-new-study/2018/02/21/6d28cbe0-1695-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 21, 2018|access-date=May 8, 2018|archive-date=April 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421172054/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/hate-groups-in-the-us-remain-on-the-rise-according-to-new-study/2018/02/21/6d28cbe0-1695-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The SPLC's identification and listings of hate groups and extremists has been the subject of controversy. The authors of the 2009 book ''The White Separatist Movement in the United States'', sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile, who used the findings of the SPLC and other watchdog groups, said that the SPLC chose its causes with funding and donations in mind.<ref name="Dobratz_WhiteSeparatist_2009"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Beinart |first1=Peter |title=A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/middlebury-free-speech-violence/518667/ |access-date=August 20, 2019 |work=The Atlantic |date=March 6, 2017 |archive-date=December 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222124148/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/middlebury-free-speech-violence/518667/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jaschik |first1=Scott |title=The Aftermath at Middlebury |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/middlebury-engages-soul-searching-after-speech-shouted-down-and-professor-attacked |access-date=August 20, 2019 |work=Inside Higher Ed |date=March 6, 2017 |archive-date=March 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306103535/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/middlebury-engages-soul-searching-after-speech-shouted-down-and-professor-attacked |url-status=live }}</ref> Concerns have been raised that people and groups designated as "hate groups" by the SPLC were being targeted by protests or violence that prevent them from speaking. The SPLC stands behind the vast majority of its listings.<ref name=politico>{{cite journal|last1=Schreckinger|first1=Ben|title=Has a Civil Rights Stalwart Lost Its Way?|journal=Politico Magazine|date=July–August 2017|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/28/morris-dees-splc-trump-southern-poverty-law-center-215312|access-date=June 29, 2017|archive-date=July 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701044841/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/28/morris-dees-splc-trump-southern-poverty-law-center-215312/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=cnn>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/dc-shooting-blame/index.html|work=CNN|title=After D.C. shooting, fingers point over blame|author=Tom Watkins|date=August 17, 2012|access-date=June 5, 2024|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509161540/https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/dc-shooting-blame/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=rcp>{{cite web|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/19/the_hate_group_that_incited_the_middlebury_melee_133377.html|publisher=Real Clear Politics|title=The Hate Group That In:cited the Middlebury Melee|author=Carl M. Cannon|date=March 19, 2017|access-date=June 5, 2024|archive-date=October 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021211749/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/19/the_hate_group_that_incited_the_middlebury_melee_133377.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, David A. Graham wrote in ''[[The Atlantic]]'' that while criticism of the SPLC had long existed, the sources of such criticism have expanded recently to include "sympathetic observers and fellow researchers on hate groups" concerned about the organization "mixing its research and activist strains".<ref name="Graham" />

[[Laird Wilcox]], an analyst of political fringe movements, has said the SPLC has taken an incautious approach to assigning the labels "hate group" and "extremist".<ref>[[#CITEREFWilcox2002|Wilcox (2002)]], pp. 309–10</ref> Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center responded that Wilcox "had an ax to grind for a great many years" and engaged in name calling against others doing anti-racist work.<ref>[[Robert Stacy McCain|McCain, Robert Stacy]]. [https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-61963980 "Researcher Says 'Watchdogs' Exaggerate Hate Group Threat"]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''The Washington Times'', May 9, 2000.</ref>

In 2009, the [[Federation for American Immigration Reform]] (FAIR) argued that allies of [[America's Voice (lobby)|America's Voice]] and [[Media Matters]] had used the SPLC designation of FAIR as a hate group to "engage in unsubstantiated, invidious name-calling, smearing millions of people in this movement."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Spencer S.|title=Immigration, Health Debates Cross Paths|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091401498.html|access-date=April 18, 2017|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 15, 2009|archive-date=April 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406094037/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091401498.html|url-status=live}}</ref> FAIR and its leadership have been criticized by the SPLC as being sympathetic to, or overtly supportive of, [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] and [[Identitarian movement|identitarian]] ideologies, as the group's late founder had stated his belief that the United States should remain a majority-white country.<ref name=SPLCFAIR>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform Federation for American Immigration Reform] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007011814/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform |date=October 7, 2022 }}. Southern Poverty Law Center</ref>

In 2010, a group of Republican politicians and conservative organizations criticized the SPLC in full-page advertisements in two Washington, D.C., newspapers for what they described as "[[character assassination]]" because the SPLC had listed the [[Family Research Council]] (FRC) as a hate group for alleged "defaming of gays and lesbians".<ref name="csmonitor.com"/><ref name=SPLCFRC>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-research-council Extremist Files: Family Research Council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506095955/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-research-council |date=May 6, 2017 }}. Southern Poverty Law Center, 2016</ref>

In August 2012, [[Floyd Lee Corkins|a gunman entered the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council]] with the intent to kill employees and smear [[Chick-fil-A]] sandwiches on the victims' faces.<ref name ="chicfila">{{Citation | last =Cratty | first =Carol | title =25-year sentence in Family Research Council shooting | publisher =[[CNN]] | date =September 19, 2013 | url =https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/justice/dc-family-research-council-shooting/index.html | access-date =August 26, 2018 | archive-date =August 27, 2018 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20180827012333/https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/justice/dc-family-research-council-shooting/index.html | url-status =live }}</ref> The gunman, Floyd Lee Corkins, stated that he chose FRC as a target because it was listed as an anti-gay group on the SPLC's website.<ref name="frcshooting">{{cite web | url =https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/06/justice/dc-family-research-council-shooting/index.html | title =DC shooter wanted to kill as many as possible, prosecutors say | last1 =Cratty | first1 =Carol | last2 =Pearson | first2 =Michael | date =February 7, 2013 | publisher =[[CNN]] | access-date =August 26, 2018 | quote =Corkins -- who had chosen the research council as his target after finding it listed as an anti-gay group on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- had planned to stride into the building and open fire on the people inside in an effort to kill as many as possible, he told investigators, according to the court documents. | archive-date =August 27, 2018 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20180827005323/https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/06/justice/dc-family-research-council-shooting/index.html | url-status =live }}</ref> A security guard was wounded but stopped Corkins from shooting anyone else. In the wake of the shooting, the SPLC was again criticized for listing FRC as an anti-gay hate group, including by liberal columnist [[Dana Milbank]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/dana-milbank-washington-post-family-research-council-hate-group_n_1822805.html |author=Signorile, Michelangelo |author-link=Michelangelo Signorile |work=HuffPost Gay Voices |date=August 22, 2012 |access-date=March 28, 2014 |title=Dana Milbank, ''Washington Post'' Writer, Slams LGBT Activists, SPLC For FRC's 'Hate Group' Label |archive-date=November 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111121314/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/dana-milbank-washington-post-family-research-council-hate-group_n_1822805.html |url-status=live }}</ref> while others defended the categorization. The SPLC defended its listing of anti-gay hate groups, stating that the groups were selected not because of their religious views, but on their "propagation of known falsehoods about LGBT people... that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities."<ref>For commentary on the LGBT and FRC issues see:
* {{cite web|author=Allen, Charlotte|date=April 15, 2013|title=King of Fearmongers: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_714573.html?page=1|work=Weekly Standard|access-date=March 28, 2014|archive-date=November 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105200610/http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_714573.html?page=1|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite news|last=Milbank|first=Dana|author-link=Dana Milbank|title=Hateful speech on hate groups|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 6, 2012|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102100409/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web|last1=Potok|first1=Mark|title=SPLC Responds to Attack by FRC, Conservative Republicans|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/12/15/splc-responds-attack-frc-conservative-republicans|website=SPLC Hatewatch|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=May 6, 2017|date=December 15, 2010|archive-date=June 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626080855/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/12/15/splc-responds-attack-frc-conservative-republicans|url-status=live}}
* {{Cite tweet |user=Hatewatch |number=664821215530364928 |date=November 12, 2015 |title=The anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council (@FRCdc) is running another #DumpSPLC campaign. Who is FRC: [Image with text: The hate group designation is based on the Family Research Council's distortion of known facts to demonize gay men as child molesters and similar false claims, and has nothing to do with FRC's support of "natural marriage" or its belief that homosexuality is a sin. – Southern Poverty Law Center] }}</ref>

===SPLC Hatewatch (blog)===
The Hatewatch blog, created in {{Circa|2007}}, publishes the work of its teams, including investigative journalists who "monitor and expose" activities of the "American radical right".<ref>{{Cite web| title = Hatewatch| work = Southern Poverty Law Center| access-date = June 22, 2020| url = https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch| archive-date = January 6, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220106010934/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch| url-status = live}}</ref> Initially, its precursor—the "Klanwatch" project—which was established in 1981, focused on monitoring KKK activities. The Hatewatch blog, along with the "Teaching Tolerance" program and the Intelligence Report, highlights SPLC's work.''<ref name="SPLC_hatemap_2006" />''

An in-depth 2018 Hatewatch report examined the roots and evolution of black-on-white crime rhetoric, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 2010s. According to the report, "[m]isrepresented crime statistics" on "black-on-white crime" have become a "main propaganda point of America's hate movement".<ref name="SPLC_20180614">{{Cite web| title = The Biggest Lie in the White Supremacist Propaganda Playbook: Unraveling the Truth About 'Black-on-White Crime'| work = Southern Poverty Law Center| access-date = June 22, 2020| url = https://www.splcenter.org/20180614/biggest-lie-white-supremacist-propaganda-playbook-unraveling-truth-about-%E2%80%98black-white-crime| date = June 14, 2018| archive-date = June 23, 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200623110911/https://www.splcenter.org/20180614/biggest-lie-white-supremacist-propaganda-playbook-unraveling-truth-about-%E2%80%98black-white-crime| url-status = live}}</ref> The report described how [[Dylann Roof]], the perpetrator of the June 17, 2015, [[Charleston church shooting]] had written in his manifesto about his 2012 Google search for "black-on-white crime", which led him to be convinced that black men were a "physical threat to white people".<ref name="SPLC_20180614"/> One of the first sources was the [[Council of Conservative Citizens]]. The report shows that on November 22, 2015, then-Presidential Candidate [[Donald Trump]] retweeted a chart that had "originated from a neo-Nazi account" which displayed "bogus crime statistics".<ref name="SPLC_20180614"/>  The SPLC report cited a November 23, 2005, ''Washington Post'' article that fact checked the figures in the graph.<ref name="washingtonpost_Bump_20151122">{{Cite news| last = Bump| first = Philip| title = Donald Trump retweeted a very wrong set of numbers on race and murder| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]| access-date = June 23, 2020| date = November 22, 2015| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/22/trump-retweeted-a-very-wrong-set-of-numbers-on-race-and-murder/| archive-date = October 22, 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161022124508/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/22/trump-retweeted-a-very-wrong-set-of-numbers-on-race-and-murder/| url-status = live}}</ref> The tweet said that "81 percent of whites are killed by black people", while the FBI says that only 15 percent of white murder victims are killed by a black perpetrator; the large majority of white murder victims are killed by white perpetrators.<ref name="SPLC_20180614"/>

===Teaching Tolerance===
[[File:CivilRightsMemorial-SPLC.jpg|thumb|Closeup of the [[Civil Rights Memorial]]]]
SPLC's projects include the website Tolerance.org, which provides news on tolerance issues, education for children, guidebooks for activists, and resources for parents and teachers.<ref>See:
* {{Cite news |url=http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources |title=Teaching Tolerance |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=May 2, 2017 |archive-date=May 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505091253/http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources |url-status=live }}
* {{cite journal|author1=Stevens, Rebecca|author2=Charles, Jim|title=Preparing Teachers to Teach Tolerance|journal=Multicultural Perspectives|date=2005|volume=7|issue=1|pages=17–25|doi=10.1207/s15327892mcp0701_4|s2cid=146710470|issn=1532-7892}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Hunter|first1=Tiffany J.|title=Creating a Culture of Peace in the Elementary Classroom|journal=The Journal of Adventist Education|date=February–March 2008|pages=20–25|url=https://www.andrews.edu/library/car/cardigital/Periodicals/Journal_of_Adventist_Education/2008/jae200870032006.pdf|access-date=May 11, 2017|archive-date=September 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929043209/http://www.andrews.edu/library/car/cardigital/Periodicals/Journal_of_Adventist_Education/2008/jae200870032006.pdf|url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal|author1=D'Angelo, Andrea M.|author2=Dixey, Brenda P.|title=Using Multicultural Resources for Teachers to Combat Racial Prejudice in the Classroom|journal=[[Early Childhood Education Journal]]|date=December 2001|volume=29|issue=1|pages=83–87|doi=10.1023/A:1012516727187|s2cid=142911767}}</ref> The website received [[Webby Award]]s in 2002 and 2004 for Best Activism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2002/web/general-website/best-activism-websites/|title=Best Activism Sites|access-date=April 9, 2022|archive-date=April 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405191045/https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2002/web/general-website/best-activism-websites/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Another product of Tolerance.org is the "10 Ways To Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists" booklet.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Willoughby |first1=Brian |title=10 Ways To Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists |url=http://equity.psu.edu/assets/Ten_ways_to_fight_racism_.pdf |date=2003 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |oclc=53621205 |access-date=May 2, 2017 |archive-date=February 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216060915/http://equity.psu.edu/assets/Ten_ways_to_fight_racism_.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Anti-LGBTQ+ hate===
In 2023, the SPLC released a report entitled ''Combating Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Through Accessible Informative Narratives'' that said "a large, yet closely-maintained network of far right groups and individuals have increasingly relied on pseudoscience as a tool to advance their cause."<ref>{{cite web |title=SPLC Report Exposes Network Behind Junk Science and Disinformation Campaign Against the LGBTQ+ Community |date=December 12, 2023 |url=https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-report-exposes-network-behind-junk-science-and-disinformation-campaign-against |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-date=January 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104042506/https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-report-exposes-network-behind-junk-science-and-disinformation-campaign-against |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Combating Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience|url=https://www.splcenter.org/captain|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=2023|access-date=January 4, 2024|archive-date=April 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414005106/https://www.splcenter.org/captain|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McEwen |first=Michael |date=15 December 2023 |title=SPLC Report: far-right groups relying on misinformation in targeting LGBTQ+ community |url=https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/splc-report-farright-groups-relying-on-misinformation-in-targeting-lgbtq-community/ |work=Mississippi Public Broadcasting |access-date=March 12, 2024 |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312175930/https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/splc-report-farright-groups-relying-on-misinformation-in-targeting-lgbtq-community/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Documentaries===
The SPLC also produces [[documentary film]]s. Two have won [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject|Documentary Short Subject]]: ''[[A Time for Justice]]'' (1994) and ''[[Mighty Times: The Children's March]]'' (2004).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |title=The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 2, 2017 |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |date=October 5, 2014 |publisher=AMPAS |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004445/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |url-status=live }} and [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/Search/Nominations?filmId=4009&view=2-Film%20Title-Alpha 2005 Academy Awards]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2017 the SPLC began developing a six-part series with Black Box Management to document "the normalization of far-right extremism in the age of Donald Trump."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sun|first1=Rebecca|title=Southern Poverty Law Center Developing Docuseries With Black Box Management (Exclusive)|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/southern-poverty-law-center-developing-docuseries-black-box-management-1002016|access-date=May 25, 2017|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=May 9, 2017|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525002403/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/southern-poverty-law-center-developing-docuseries-black-box-management-1002016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Cooperation with law enforcement===
The SPLC cooperates with, and offers training to, law enforcement agencies, focusing "on the history, background, leaders, and activities of far-right extremists in the United States".<ref>For information on training see:
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140312234435/http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/hate-and-extremism/law-enforcement/law-enforcement-training "Law Enforcement Training"], Southern Poverty Law Center.
* {{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/us/us-southern-poverty-law-center-profile/index.html|title=SPLC draws conservative ire|author=Ariosto, David|access-date=May 15, 2017|date=August 17, 2012|work=CNN|archive-date=August 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818215409/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/us/us-southern-poverty-law-center-profile/index.html|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d738P9jvNLsC&pg=PA452|page=452|editor-last=Finley|editor-first=Laura L.|title=Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=978-0313362385|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-date=June 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605231106/https://books.google.com/books?id=d738P9jvNLsC&pg=PA452|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHmSzuwyXtkC&pg=PA410|page=410|first1=James A.|last1=Conser|first2=Rebecca|last2=Paynich|first3=Terry E.|last3=Gingerich|title=Law Enforcement in the United States|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|year=2011|isbn=978-0763799380|edition=3rd|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-date=June 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605231143/https://books.google.com/books?id=CHmSzuwyXtkC&pg=PA410#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSx_8ZEvZycC&pg=PA103|author=Lane, Virginia|page=103|chapter=Appendix D: Sources of information for responding to hate crimes|title=Hate Crime Statistics: A Resource Book|publisher=DIANE Publishing|year=1990|isbn=978-0788105364|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-date=June 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605231109/https://books.google.com/books?id=PSx_8ZEvZycC&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> The FBI has partnered with the SPLC and many other organizations "to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems" related to hate crimes.<ref>For information about hate groups provided to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI). See:
* {{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes|title=What We Investigate: Hate Crimes: The FBI's Role: Public Outreach|website=www.fbi.gov|access-date=April 4, 2017|archive-date=May 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519002149/https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes|url-status=live}}
* [[#CITEREFMichael2012|Michael (2012)]], p. 32.
* {{cite news|last1=Hauslohner|first1=Abigail|title=Southern Poverty Law Center says American hate groups are on the rise|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/southern-poverty-law-center-says-american-hate-groups-are-on-the-rise/2017/02/15/7e9cab02-f2d9-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html|access-date=April 4, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 15, 2017|quote=The FBI says it does not investigate organizations characterized by the SPLC as 'hate groups,' or others, unless it has reason to believe that a particular individual is engaged in criminal activity.|archive-date=March 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328023019/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/southern-poverty-law-center-says-american-hate-groups-are-on-the-rise/2017/02/15/7e9cab02-f2d9-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In a November 2018 briefing of law enforcement officials in [[Clark County, Washington]], concerning the [[Proud Boys]] FBI agents suggested the use of various websites for more information, including that of the SPLC.<ref name=oregonian>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2018/12/head-of-oregons-fbi-bureau-doesnt-designate-proud-boys-as-extremist-group.html|title=Head of Oregon's FBI: Bureau doesn't designate Proud Boys as extremist group|website=oregonlive.com|language=en-US|access-date=December 8, 2018|date=December 4, 2018|archive-date=December 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102342/https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2018/12/head-of-oregons-fbi-bureau-doesnt-designate-proud-boys-as-extremist-group.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The organization urged Chicago to fire a policeman who allegedly hid his association with the Proud Boys.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern Poverty Law Center urges CPD to reconsider decision not to fire officer who lied about ties to Proud Boys |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-poverty-law-center-urges-cpd-to-reconsider-decision-not-to-fire-officer-who-lied-about-ties-to-proud-boys/ar-AA160LJo |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=MSN |language=en-US |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605231112/https://www.msn.com/en-us |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== ''Intelligence Report'' ===
Since 1981, the SPLC's Intelligence Project has published a quarterly ''Intelligence Report'' that monitors what the SPLC considers [[Radical right (United States)|radical right]] [[hate group]]s and [[extremists]] in the United States.<ref>{{oclc|70790007}}</ref> The ''Intelligence Report'' provides information regarding organizational efforts and tactics of these groups and persons, and has been cited by scholars, including [[Rory M. McVeigh]] and [[David Mark Chalmers]], as a reliable and comprehensive source on U.S. right-wing extremism and hate groups.<ref name="Chalmers_Backfire_2003"/>{{rp|188}}<ref>See:
*[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report Intelligence Report ''Get Informed'' web page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803094210/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report |date=August 3, 2015 }}. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
*{{Cite journal|first=Rory|last=McVeigh|title=Structured Ignorance and Organized Racism in the United States|journal=[[Social Forces]]|volume=82|issue=3|pages=895–936|date=March 2004|jstor=3598361|doi=10.1353/sof.2004.0047|s2cid=146565591|quote=[I]ts outstanding reputation is well established, and the SPLC has been an excellent source of information for social scientists who study racist organizations.}}
*Barnett, Brett A. (2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=iuQSNj5NxioC&dq=Southern+Poverty+Law+reliable+source&pg=PA20 ''Untangling the web of hate: are online "hate sites" deserving of First Amendment Protection?''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408111107/https://books.google.com/books?id=iuQSNj5NxioC&dq=Southern+Poverty+Law+reliable+source&pg=PA20 |date=April 8, 2023 }}. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. Retrieved May 15, 2017
*{{cite web |url=http://www.wiu.edu/ISCDA/resources.shtml |title=Illinois Association for Cultural Diversity reading list |publisher=[[Western Illinois University]] |access-date=January 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515070740/http://www.wiu.edu/ISCDA/resources.shtml |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref> In 2013 the SPLC donated the ''Intelligence Project''{{'}}s documentation to the library of [[Duke University]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=EXTREMISM @ the LIBRARY|first=Maria R.|last=Traska|journal=[[American Libraries]]|volume=45|issue=6|year=2014|pages=32–35|jstor=24603509}}</ref> The SPLC also publishes ''HateWatch Weekly'', a newsletter that follows racism and extremism, and the ''Hatewatch'' blog, whose [[Subtitle (titling)|subtitle]] is "Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right".<ref>{{oclc|753911264}}</ref>

Two articles published in ''Intelligence Report'' have won "Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism" awards from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]]. "Communing with the Council", written by Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser, took third place for Investigative Journalism in the Magazine Division in 2004, and "Southern Gothic", by David Holthouse and [[Casey Sanchez]], took second place for Feature Reporting in the Magazine Division in 2007.<ref>For the articles and awards see:
* {{cite web|last=Beirich|first=Heidi|author2=Bob Moser|title=Communing with the Council|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|year=2004|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=802|access-date=January 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020094447/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=802|archive-date=October 20, 2009}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.spj.org/a-eyeshadeW04.asp |title=Green Eyeshade Awards 2004 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |access-date=January 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124072832/http://spj.org/a-eyeshadeW04.asp |archive-date=January 24, 2009  }}
*{{cite web|last=Holthouse|first=David|author2=Casey Sanchez|title=Southern Gothic|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|year=2007|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=789|access-date=January 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817193655/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=789|archive-date=August 17, 2009}}
* {{cite web |url=http://spjsofla.net/2008/04/30/finalists-named-in-58th-annual-green-eyeshade-awards |title=Green Eyeshade Awards 2007 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |access-date=January 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514124213/http://spjsofla.net/2008/04/30/finalists-named-in-58th-annual-green-eyeshade-awards/ |archive-date=May 14, 2008  }}</ref>

Since 2001, the SPLC has released an annual issue of the ''Intelligence Project'' called ''Year in Hate'', later renamed ''Year in Hate and Extremism'', in which it presents statistics on the numbers of hate groups in America. The current format of the report covers racial hate groups, nativist hate groups, and other [[Far-right politics|right-wing extremist]] groups such as groups within the [[Patriot Movement]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Intelligence Report, browse all issues web page |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues |publisher=SPLC |access-date=May 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508004916/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues |archive-date=May 8, 2015  }}</ref> [[Jesse Walker]], writing in ''[[Reason.com]]'', criticized the 2016 report, questioning whether the count was reliable, as it focused on the number of groups rather than the number of people in those groups or the size of the groups. Walker gives the example that the 2016 report itself concedes an increase in the number of KKK groups could be due to two large groups falling apart, leading to members creating smaller local groups.<ref>{{cite web|author=Walker, Jesse|author-link=Jesse Walker|title=The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Counting Extremists Again: Do its numbers tell a story?|url=http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/16/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-count|work=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason Magazine]]|publisher=[[Reason Foundation]]|issn=0048-6906|access-date=April 19, 2017|date=February 16, 2017|archive-date=April 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419192549/http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/16/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-count|url-status=live}}</ref>